“The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.”
“I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.”
| Namie Amuro, Musician (1977) |
| Mychael Danna, Musician (1958) |
| James Dewar, Scientist (1842) |
| Dante Hall, Athlete (1978) |
| Kristen Johnston, Actress (1967) |
| Henry Arthur Jones, Dramatist (1851) |
| Van Jones, Activist (1968) |
| William Kapell, Musician (1922) |
| Elizabeth Kenny, Celebrity (1880) |
| Guy Lafleur, Athlete (1951) |
| Robert Emmet, Activist (1803) |
| Paul Erdos, Mathematician (1996) |
| Fiorello LaGuardia, Politician (1947) |