My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio. — David Gergen Copy Share Image
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract." — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt saw the world as a possible alliance, with the UN involved, of course, where we would never have these kinds… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“At the Yalta Conference in early 1945, Franklin Roosevelt had made it clear that he had little interest in further close collaboration… — Lynne Olson Copy Share Image
One has to say that they [Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt] were pioneering to some extent. They didn't know that some of the… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
“Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation. He may have wondered… — Dale A. Jenkins Copy Share Image
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
Lincoln was able to say, you know, "It will make me very unhappy if I lose the presidency, but I'm committed to… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
“The New York Times denounces America's "dancing with dictators." Guilty as charged. Dance we do. And without apology. With no more apology… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Capitalism can be alright, I mean Karl Marx didn't live to see what Roosevelt did with that Depression. He pulled everybody out… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“Franklin D. Roosevelt became the architect of the American welfare state. However, Roosevelt was concerned that the institution he was fostering would… — Nima Sanandaji Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F.… — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
“Economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. —Franklin D. Roosevelt” — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change. — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
And imagine where we'd be today if President Franklin Roosevelt had owned apartment buildings in Frankfurt and Berlin. You know, some of… — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
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