Country Quote by Rahm Emanuel

“In surveys, a majority consistently rank FDR near the top of the list for presidential greatness, so it is likely they would reject the…

— Lawrence W. Reed

“On February 17, Obama signed the Recovery Act into law. It had squeaked through Congress with only three Republican votes in the Senate and…

— Jane Mayer

Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the Republicans' responsibility…

— Tina Brown

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

— Sargent Shriver

Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he…

— Will Rogers

I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back…

— Chris Matthews

The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the…

— Barack Obama

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

— Caroline Lucas

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.

— Michael Parenti

The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a…

— Thomas Sowell

I would say one thing people need to do - and his is how Roosevelt's New Deal began - let us go back to…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

“Starting in 1792 with George Washington, there were financial crises every ten to fifteen years. Panics, bank runs, credit freezes, crashes, depressions. People lost…

— Elizabeth Warren