Franklin Quotes · Page 6

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere…

— Ken Livingstone

[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their…

— Joseph Stalin

Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and…

— Michael Ignatieff

I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight…

— Edward Rutherfurd

Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy…

— William A. Rusher

We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal…

— Charlie Munger

There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are…

— Beck

Being a progressive himself, Franklin Roosevelt was talking about the fact that we should provide jobs for everyone who wants one. People…

— Nina Turner

I think there will be some people who think I did a great job, some people who will think, 'Hey, for a…

— Rich Franklin

After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated…

— Oliver Stone

Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about…

— Jodi Picoult

I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father.…

— Oliver Stone

[John's Adams] description of [Benjamin] Franklin in a letter to [his wife] Abigail in 1775 is laudatory. Only when he experiences all…

— Gordon S. Wood

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint!…

— Robert Frost

Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt . A lot…

— Nat Hentoff

My liberal friends love to dismiss Reagan. You know, they'll say something like, 'Oh, didn't he, like, only read one-page memos when…

— Rick Perlstein

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love,…

— Beth Ditto

We are very proud of the diverse talents within the Franklin Mint's own walls.

— Lynda Resnick

Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to…

— Garry Wills

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had…

— Carl Sandburg

George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate…

— Peggy Noonan

Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an…

— John Desmond Bernal

In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then…

— Jon Landau

As the titanic losses were racking up, Fannie Mae's operators, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, disguised the catastrophe by orchestrating a $5…

— Ann Coulter

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and…

— Tracy Chapman