Politicians have done some grim things in pursuit of the…

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

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty…

— Jon Meacham

You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle against Nazi…

— Robert Dallek

“For better than thirty years, as a working historian, I have written on leaders I knew, such as Lyndon Johnson, and interviewed intimates of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire…

— Chuck Hagel

Capitalism can be alright, I mean Karl Marx didn't live to see what Roosevelt did with that Depression. He pulled everybody out of that…

— David Bowie

Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties.

— Mark Shields

George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.

— Robert Dallek

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican…

— Russell Baker

Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a change in…

— Dick Morris

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

You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.

— Kurt Vonnegut

And imagine where we'd be today if President Franklin Roosevelt had owned apartment buildings in Frankfurt and Berlin. You know, some of us might…

— Richard Painter