“Conventional belief holds that after triumphing over a mid-career bout with polio, FDR went on to serve two vigorous terms as gov-… — Steven Lomazow 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
“But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home,… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“ Paine suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others...… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt. — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who… — Lael Brainard Copy Share Image
My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life.… — Richard M. Daley Copy Share Image
Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty. — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal eased but did not end the country's economic ills, a trio of leftist radicals -… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Most people today don't feel that Barack Obama is on our side. We sense he's incapable of doing what Roosevelt did, of… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of… — James Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
“[Theodore] Roosevelt had long ago discovered that the more provincial the supplicants, the less able were they to understand that their need… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted… — Sander Levin Copy Share Image
Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution… — Susan Quinn Copy Share Image
During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
