1980s Political Quotes

#1. I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

Wyclef Jean

#2. The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.

Douglass North

#3. 'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

Erich Bergen

#4. The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.

Edward Brooke

#5. Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent. When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

Warren Buffett

#6. Got 27 children I never see.

Tom Waits

#7. In the 1980s ... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious.

James G. Watt

#8. When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.

Anthony Hopkins

#9. Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

Edward P. Jones

#10. Mexico has experimented with political change since the late 1980s.

Enrique Pena Nieto