Disturbing Quote by Amity Shlaes Download Open image “FDR's job results were, to put it politely, disturbing.” — Amity Shlaes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disturbing Job Put Results Were
...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“No one was a stranger in that crowd. We had all heard FDR's "Fireside Chats" and Edward R. Murrow's "This is London," listened to H.V. Kaltenborn for the evening news, and watched the newsreels before the movies. We'd read Ernie Pyle's columns, planted victory gardens, written V mails, sent care packages, gathered phonograph records for the USO, given up nylon… — Marjorie Hart Copy Share
FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the… — Stuart Symington Copy Share Image
“The press of visitors, a New York Times reporter observed, never seemed “to try the President’s strength or impair his good temper.” At one… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
FDR was enormously influenced by this, and afraid. I mean, his intervention was to save capitalism. It wasn't to basically appease the workers. And… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to say one word, say one word to prevent a filibuster or to end a filibuster. From '34 to '35 to '36 to '37 to '38, it comes up again and again, and FDR doesn't say one word. And… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share
“Roosevelt was at his most impassioned when commented on the sadistic quality of lynchings: There are certain hideous sights which when once seen can… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
“There is just one problem, Captain,” the President said quietly. “I can’t order you to undertake such a covert project. It’s dangerous, could get… — Derek Hart Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“This was supposedly an Honors American History class, for seniors only. What deep, dark secrets of American History needed to be kept from younger… — Melodie Starkey Copy Share Image
I think FDR was very dashing and charming and debonair, and probably reminded her of her father. A great bon-vivant. He loved to party.… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says:… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it a strange thing,” he asked Barton, “that in every period of social unrest men have the notion that they can pass a… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity. — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
The theme of the party was Neverland Ranch, so guests were asked to come as anyone or anything associated with Michael Jackson. It was… — April Winchell Copy Share Image
I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving.… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban wilderness and… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
