Marshall Plan Quotes:

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

- Harry S. Truman

source: Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.149, New Word City

topic: Peace, America, Historical, Marshall Plan

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

- W. Averell Harriman

topic: Europe, Silence, Breaking Down, Marshall Plan, Preamble

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.

- Ted Rall

topic: Country, Commitment, Years, Marshall Plan

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

- Gordon Brown

topic: Opportunity, Generations, World, Marshall Plan

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

- W. Averell Harriman

topic: Europe, Communist, Economic, Marshall Plan, Grandiose

The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

- George Papandreou

topic: Thinking, Europe, Important, Marshall Plan

We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.

- Al Gore

topic: Eugenics, Suffering, Environmental, Marshall Plan, Causes Of Poverty

In the US after the Great Depression, they invested heavily in infrastructure to create a lot of employment. In Germany after the war there was the Marshall plan for roads, rail, housing, energy, water and so on. That created massive employment after the devastation of the war and helped them to rebuild the country.

- Raila Odinga

topic: Country, War, Water, Marshall Plan

There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.

- William Easterly

source: William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.11, Penguin

topic: Children, Book, Medicine, Marshall Plan, Poor Children

I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan aid. They had a very negative attitude towards the United States then. There were negative attitudes towards the United States because of Vietnam. There were negative attitudes about the United States when Reagan wanted to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles. I don't think the president should base his foreign policy on American public opinion polls, let alone foreign public opinion polls.

- John Bolton

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Attitude, Thinking, President, Marshall Plan, Opinion Polls

If enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one.

- Naomi Klein

topic: Decision, Levels, Climate, Marshall Plan, Looking Away

Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.

- Robert Dallek

topic: War, President, Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Containment

Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it's not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps. It is easy to make that theoretical argument.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.theatlantic.com

topic: Powerful, Order, Community, Jim Crow, Marshall Plan

The more comprehensive and convincing a debt reduction program is, the less likely it is to fail. And remember, just as Germany is grateful to America for the Marshall Plan, Italy would be grateful to Germany for helping it lower its refinancing costs.

- George Soros

source: "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

topic: Grateful, America, Germany, Marshall Plan