It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.
The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.
The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.
The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
I don't believe in any Greatest Generation. I believe in great events. They sweep ordinary people up, expose them to extremes of human behavior and unimaginable tests of integrity and courage, and then deposit them back on the home front.