1980s Quotes

You've got a lot of guys who can run 10.2, who can run 20.5 (in the 200), and we take that for granted. What we don't have are the guys in college who can run sub-10 (seconds) or the numbers that we may have had in the 1980s or early 1990s. - Leroy Burrell

You have to have the world start doing better (before commodities prices correct), and the Asian crisis is starting to look a lot like what Latin America went through in the 1980s. It took them almost a decade to get their problems fixed. - Bill O'Grady

Willingness to live on the ground floor is at a much higher level today than it was in the mid-1980s. - Jonathan Miller

When Texans suffered from the collapse of the oil market in the 1980s, they could rely on the fiscal union to help them. When Texas boomed with rising oil prices in the 2000s, it contributed to the union to help harder hit regions. - Austan Goolsbee

When it started here, we wanted to create a tradition. We had a bunch of enthusiastic athletes, but we never quite built a sustained thing. We had some success in the 1980s, but it went sour again. For the last few years we've had a team that was expected to win. - Jim Zorn

When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s. - Barack Obama

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that? - Cynthia Payne

What's the tolerance in the market? This market hasn't seen a $33 to $37 a square-foot rent market since the 1980s. It doesn't mean it couldn't be again, but that's what those guys (would-be buyers) are betting on. - John McCarthy

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940sI love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished. during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war. - Ken Mehlman

We've seen very little wage increases for unskilled workers since the 1980s. - Anne Cahill

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