The closest thing is in 1917, they say, the great pandemic. It certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people. Probably ended the Second World War. All the soldiers were sick. – Donald Trump The Spanish Flu was 1918-20 and Second World War didn’t begin till 1939.
Do you think if house music was around in the 30’s World War II would have even happened? – Sacha Baron Cohen Bruno, Da Ali G Show.
In Covid-19 You know, there’s a uh, during World War II, uh, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing uh, that uh, you know, was totally different than a, than the, the, it’s called, he called it the, you know, the World War II, he had the war – the War Production Board. – Joe Biden Rambling and struggling for words during CNN interview about coronavirus response, in April 2020.
Take it seriously. Since German unification, no, since the Second World War, there has been no challenge to our nation that has demanded such a degree of common and united action. – Angela Merkel German Chancellor on war against Covid-19.
You have no idea what Dunkirk is, right? You’re a stranger to history. You’re a stranger to war. You just wave your hand and it all goes away. Well, it’s not so easy for those who died and it was not so easy for those who were left behind. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: Picard, ‘Remembrance’.
The disease represents a threat to everybody in the world and…an economic impact that will bring a recession that probably has no parallel in the recent past. This is the most challenging crisis we have faced since the Second World War. – Antonio Guterres UN Secretary-General on Covid-19 pandemic.
This is the most difficult crisis that the country has faced since World War II. – Giuseppe Conte Italian Prime Minister on coronavirus pandemic.
The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal. – Helen Thomas
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status. – Alistair Horne
In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified. – Bernie Sanders
Since World War II, inflation – the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services – has been the bane of central bankers. – Ben Bernanke
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II. – Barbara Amiel
I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go… It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, ‘Wait a second? Didn’t we just get through with that?’ – Clint Eastwood
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. – Elliott Abrams
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. – George McGovern
What Stieg Larsson was up to – it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the most terrible experiences with the bad forces, but Sweden didn’t. I think we use the thrillers in a different way. We never write a thriller like ‘Who is the murderer?’ The big question in most of our thrillers is… ‘Why?’ – Michael Nyqvist
Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam. – Dan Jenkins
The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would never again be a pan-European war and to create the conditions for a new European prosperity after the destruction wrought by the war against the Nazis. The E.U. has admirably succeeded at both. – Peter L. Bergen
We’ve committed many war crimes in Vietnam – but I’ll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. – George Wald
Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II – the five years before Korea started. – Pete Hamill
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration. – Martin Filler
If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would’ve been Henri Baurel. – Max von Essen
Let’s not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II. – Jeff Greene