Answers Quote by George McGovern

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

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure.

— Mark Levin

The idea of liberalism has to be recreated. In the course of time it has lost so much of its clarity and attraction that…

— Friedrich Naumann

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…

— David Limbaugh

The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that…

— Bill Moyers

During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve…

— Noah Feldman

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and…

— H. L. Mencken

There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created the conditions…

— Kshama Sawant

The New Deal saved capitalism - saved it from the big-time capitalists - though many of the big-timers didn't see it that way.

— Ben Fountain

There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could…

— Garet Garrett