Airplane Quote by Amity Shlaes

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Coolidge showed that the best government was the one that got out of the way. When he refrained, the economy grew, the Ku Klux…

— Amity Shlaes

Roosevelt's New Deal regulated business, protected social welfare and promoted national infrastructure on the principle that the role of government was not simply to…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Coolidge really hated government being in the power business. He thought it was wrong. He saw the potential for growth in the power business.…

— Amity Shlaes

Coolidge was a federalist. You go back and read him and it's almost intimidating to write about him because he writes better himself than…

— Amity Shlaes

Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes brought in…

— Amity Shlaes

Calvin Coolidge was one of the best presidents. Why? Because he did absolutely nothing.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Coolidge liked the dignity of the presidency. He didn't get on the phone easily. It's possible that he banished the phone from his desk.…

— Amity Shlaes

FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic social safety…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.

— Caroline Lucas

“Roosevelt did an about-face and adopted Hoover’s blueprint for government involvement in the economy—then juiced it on steroids.”

— Brion T. McClanahan

I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.

— Clifton Daniel