Roosevelt Quotes

174 Roosevelt quotes by 135 unique authors

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when… — Gaylord Nelson
Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his… — Martin O'Malley
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them. — Ken Livingstone
All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was… — Robert E. Sherwood
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then… — Ben Bernanke
Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record… — Bruce Babbitt
Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could… — Emanuel Celler
If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John… — Jeff Greenfield
John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill,… — Douglas Brinkley
How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing? Roosevelt was cripple,… — Don McLean
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality. — John T. Flynn
President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever… — John Hoeven
Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically… — Steve Israel
I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this… — Theodore Roosevelt
Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants… — Will Rogers
On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold. — Michael Maloney
President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But every… — John F. Kennedy
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid… — Ron Fournier
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds. — Ron Fournier
Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough,… — Thomas Frank
If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave. — Samuel Goldwyn
George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their… — Jeff Greenfield
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have… — Gail Collins
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. — Marian Wright Edelman
I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed… — Rahm Emanuel

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