Class Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

Remember what Teddy Roosevelt did. Yes, he took on what he saw as the excesses in the economy, but he also stood against the…

— Hillary Clinton

In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt . .…

— Bertrand Russell

“Just like in the old days before Roosevelt, segregationists were given the power to locally administer and racially discriminate the relief coming from these…

— Ibram X. Kendi

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

FDR was enormously influenced by this, and afraid. I mean, his intervention was to save capitalism. It wasn't to basically appease the workers. And…

— Henry Giroux

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were…

— John T. Flynn

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

— Brion T. McClanahan

In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the…

— James Surowiecki

“They were men linked more to one another, their schools, their own social class and their own concerns than they were linked to the…

— David Halberstam

“With all of their backbreaking hard work, they felt it unfair to have such a significant portion of the fruits of their labors confiscated…

— Ben Carson

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

— Noam Chomsky

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

— Amity Shlaes