Only I can let you disrepect me! Eleanore Roosevelt

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“A day out-of- doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music — that would be rest.…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although first ladies…

— William A. Rusher

“Speak softly, but carry a big stick. —Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. president”

— Adam M. Grant

I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great…

— Ed Crane

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

— Samuel Goldwyn, Jr

The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“All the cartoonists at heart liked him, and there was seldom or never anything bitter or really unfriendly in their portrayals of him; they…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Given my druthers now, I’d prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding’s wife, “the Duchess,” who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook…

— Gillian Flynn

“Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans could match…

— Edmund Morris

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

— Ann Richards

You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him.

— Elmer Davis

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

— Winston Churchill