Richard M. Daley Quotes

And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

After the threat of war is gone, we should not turn our backs on the men and women who eliminated that threat. We should embrace them and keep our promises we made to them.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s and '70s. My attitude resembles that of my parents, who were born in the '20s and lived through the Great Depression and World War II.

I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service.

For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.