Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio. — David Gergen Copy Share Image
My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. — Bret Stephens 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
Franklin Roosevelt had a pretty clear line. Ronald Reagan had a pretty clear line, people who rescue parties. — Mark Shields 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
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
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
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
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
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
Well, at the time, we certainly regarded them [Elianor and Franklin Roosevelt] as partners. We did not know what has since come… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
“For better than thirty years, as a working historian, I have written on leaders I knew, such as Lyndon Johnson, and interviewed… — Doris Kearns Goodwin 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
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
Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt . A lot… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
In the Munich agreement in late 1938 [Franklin] Roosevelt sent his chief adviser Sumner Welles, who came back with a very supportive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike.… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did -… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
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
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
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
Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I've been offered the role of Franklin Roosevelt, and I wouldn't presume to undertake it. — Sterling Hayden 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
![“Well, at the time, we certainly regarded them [Elianor and Franklin Roosevelt] as partners. We did not know what has since come out about the difficulties of their marital life, or the problems that Franklin gave Eleanor and his mother gave Eleanor, in many respects. We didn't know much about that.” quote by William A. Rusher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb9/william-a-rusher-20922_difficulty_well-at-the-time-we-certainly-regarded-t_2793348.jpg)
![“In the Munich agreement in late 1938 [Franklin] Roosevelt sent his chief adviser Sumner Welles, who came back with a very supportive statement saying that Hitler was someone we could really do business with and so on.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d10/noam-chomsky-42_adviser_in-the-munich-agreement-in-late-1938-fra_2558896.jpg)
![“One has to say that they [Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt] were pioneering to some extent. They didn't know that some of the housing projects that they were putting up for the poor were going to turn into crack dens and rapists' bowers and things of that sort, which they have since become. But you…” quote by William A. Rusher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/william-a-rusher-20922_cracks_one-has-to-say-that-they-eleanor-and-fra_1164374.jpg)
![“I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I…” quote by William A. Rusher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67e/william-a-rusher-20922_accounts_i-don-t-think-she-ever-had-a-single-init_1803590.jpg)
![“Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.” quote by Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a75/kurt-vonnegut-41_class_social-class-means-a-hell-of-a-lot-and-u_1928515.jpg)
![“There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.” quote by John Kenneth Galbraith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c6/john-kenneth-galbraith-643_attributes_there-was-the-missile-crisis-but-one-can_2866567.png)
