Deal Quote by Heather Cox Richardson

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

— Caroline Lucas

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

— Charles Krauthammer

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

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

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

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in…

— George McGovern

FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic social safety…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.

— Adam Cohen

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

“How did we get the 1960s? One is tempted to locate the ideological roots of this era in the 1930s. The expansion of the…

— Dinesh D'Souza

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt eventually became the greatest liberal leader of 20th century United States, but he started as a fiscal conservative. His greatness is…

— Abhijit Banerjee