Automobile Quote by Amity Shlaes

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

— Milo Yiannopoulos

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

In a way, Calvin Coolidge is better than Reagan. His tax rates were lower, and he cut budgets.

— Amity Shlaes

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

— Brion T. McClanahan

Remember what Teddy Roosevelt did. Yes, he took on what he saw as the excesses in the economy, but he also stood against the…

— Hillary Clinton

Franklin Delano Roosevelt eventually became the greatest liberal leader of 20th century United States, but he started as a fiscal conservative. His greatness is…

— Abhijit Banerjee

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 thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.

— Amity Shlaes

There comes Coolidge and does nothing and retires a hero, not only because he hadn't done anything, but because he had done it better…

— Will Rogers

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

— Amity Shlaes

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

— Noam Chomsky

You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the…

— Ronald Reagan