1930s Quote by Caroline Lucas Download Open image “The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.” — Caroline Lucas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1930s Deal New New deal Visionary
Since Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the New Deal in the 1930s, radical conservatives have railed against the idea that the government should… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would say one thing people need to do - and his is how Roosevelt's New Deal began - let us go back to… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
Whether we're talking about the New Deal or the Great Society: they didn't come about because they wanted to buy people off with "hush… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“By 1937, Roosevelt realized that the New Deal was on life support. Many of the programs did not work as intended, and the economy had taken a dip. But Roosevelt could not go before the American public and announce that billions of dollars worth of federal programs had produced only a sluggish economy or, even worse, another depression. So he… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share
The programs that came to be known as the New Deal were not simply handed down by the benevolence of FDR and the Democrats.… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
“In surveys, a majority consistently rank FDR near the top of the list for presidential greatness, so it is likely they would reject the notion that the New Deal was responsible for prolonging the Great Depression. But when a nationally representative poll by the American Institute of Public Opinion in the spring of 1939 asked, “Do you think the attitude… — Lawrence W. Reed Copy Share
Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt did an about-face and adopted Hoover’s blueprint for government involvement in the economy—then juiced it on steroids.” — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
Don't ever let anyone tell you that history doesn't repeat. For 70 years, liberals have been spinning the yarn that FDR's New Deal, despite all the evidence that it exacerbated and prolonged the Great Depression, quickened our economic recovery. Indeed, I remember scratching my head when one of my college history professors in the 1970s tried to convince us of… — David Limbaugh Copy Share
A government can't cut its way out of a recession any more than you can dig yourself out of a hole. — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
When this coronavirus crisis is over, what kind of society will we be? A more important question is what kind of society do we… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
I don't think Ed Miliband has the courage of his convictions. He's scared he'll be painted by the rightwing press as a throwback to… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Huge public spending and borrowing in the face of an existential crisis is clearly the right thing to do, as is putting people's health… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
With pollution from traffic a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, we should be building a transport and planning system that makes car-free travel… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
We must instil our future leaders with the expertise, knowledge and skills to prevent climate breakdown and restore nature to health. — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Many are outspoken about the climate crisis, but conveniently ignore the fact that support for fossil fuels is not just incompatible with curbing emissions… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
My constituents are my employers - if I let them down I should be accountable to them. — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
The billions being spent on Trident replacement would be much better spent on investing in developing the infrastructure we need for a zero-carbon economy,… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s. There were… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
Working in 3D I didn't experience much of a difference, except that the cameras are very big so they can't be moved around with… — James Frain Copy Share Image
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We're a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
I would not say that Harvard possesses any sort of absolute dominance. And I personally do not take the rankings of schools all that… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. — James Meade Copy Share Image
When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews.… — Jerry Robinson Copy Share Image
