Public interest Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

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

— Brion T. McClanahan

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

— Caroline Lucas

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun…

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Recently there came a period when I had little to do. This was novel in a life so crammed with busy years, and I…

— L. Ron Hubbard

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. —Theodore Roosevelt”

— Erec Stebbins

“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

“Each party profited by the offices when in power,” Roosevelt explained, “and when in opposition each party insincerely denounced its opponents for doing exactly…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“For the postwar peace, he preferred to minimize direct government intervention and manipulate the economy through fiscal and other incentives.”

— Tony Judt

To picture Roosevelt as a man at this time in his life - he felt he was old. He was 53 years old, feeling…

— Geoffrey Cowan

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…

— Emanuel Celler

“The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the…

— Richard Epstein