We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability,… — H.J. Haskell Copy Share Image
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
In terms of the Green New Deal, I support the urgency and the end goal of the Green New Deal. I would… — Wayne Messam Copy Share Image
F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
What is needed is both a New Deal in terms of mission-oriented investments but also a new deal in terms of a… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
“Dissent and dissidence are overwhelmingly the work of the young. It is not by chance that the men and women who initiated… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Americans are right to believe the American Dream is fading. But that dream only became a possibility for white men as a… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
They're rights that should be endemic to any democracy. The right to a free quality education, from elementary school right through higher… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
I would always argue to my students that Canada is not necessarily or inherently a left-wing country, and the United States is… — Robert Bothwell Copy Share Image
In terms of legacy, I'm not sure that I see some great historic deposit there, as a result of her passing our… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
“The Jim Crow South,” writes Ira Katznelson, a history and political science professor at Columbia, “was the one collaborator America’s democracy could… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The programs that came to be known as the New Deal were not simply handed down by the benevolence of FDR and… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
Since Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the New Deal in the 1930s, radical conservatives have railed against the idea that the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“The third Great Awakening is variously said to have started between the 1860s and 1890; it continued into the early 1900s and… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I would suggest that a Green Real Deal is something to be far more excited about than the Green New Deal because… — Matt Gaetz Copy Share Image
As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners… — Ron Jaworski Copy Share Image
When Democrats are proposing things like a Green New Deal and Medicare for all and proposing that they take away your private… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal,… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
“In many ways, we are the city that the New Deal built. Because that's who built all of our infrastructure. Before that,… — Michael Barnes Copy Share Image
FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
You can see our media appearances as well as connect to Our Power to the People Agenda, Our Green New Deal, our… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them. — Rexford Tugwell Copy Share Image
We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
That's in part what the Green New Deal is designed to do. So it's not only to address the climate emergency, but… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression -… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I came to believe that actually [Louis] Brandeis tended to uphold laws that he liked and strike down those that he didn't,… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
The neoconservatives of the 1970s, former liberals who became Nixon or Reagan backers, eventually accepted the 'neocon' description instead of calling themselves… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“This is not to portray race as simply one among many issues, each with equal weight; instead, race has been the principal… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
You know they've come to this point where they want to blame climate change for quite literally everything now, and sorry, but… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
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