Politics Quote by Brion T. McClanahan

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

— Amity Shlaes

“But the deepest problem was the intervention, the lack of faith in the marketplace. Government management of the late 1920s and 1930s hurt the…

— Amity Shlaes

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

— Babe Ruth

The election of Hoover...should result in continued prosperity for 1929.

— Roger Babson

Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create…

— Paul Sarbanes

We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.

— Rexford Tugwell

“Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Halfway through the second term of Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal braintrusters began to worry about mounting popular concern over the national debt. In…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“Imagine, for a moment, if his administration had been willing to invoke its newly minted democratic mandate to build the new economy promised on…

— Naomi Klein

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

— Caroline Lucas

“Yet just eighty years ago it still seemed an impossible mission when U.S. President Herbert Hoover was tasked with beating back the Great Depression…

— Rutger Bregman

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

— Sargent Shriver