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“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

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

— Erec Stebbins

“Roosevelt declared, arguing that “the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.

— Coretta Scott King

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former…

— John T. Flynn

“every leader who strived for power somehow ended up corrupted in the process.”

— Morgan Rice

“If the problems created by the industrial age were left unattended, Roosevelt cautioned, America would eventually be “sundered by those dreadful lines of division”…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

— Brion T. McClanahan

“Reform as such is inherently reactionary and perpetuates psychological dependence on the enemy,while confusing the true class contradictions between ourselves and the enemy.”

— Black Liberation Army Co-Ordinating Committee

“The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

“power that isn’t really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled.”

— Noam Chomsky