Beginning Quote by Robert Dallek

What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal…

— Paul Krugman

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

— Caroline Lucas

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

Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into…

— Rob Portman

U.S. Treasury was able to save the country during the Civil War by expanding the deficit... They saved the economic well-being of the country…

— Scott Bessent

Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of…

— Christina Romer

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

“In practice, the new foreign policy, an effective Trump doctrine, was to reduce the board to three elements: powers we can work with, powers…

— Michael Wolff

In the US after the Great Depression, they invested heavily in infrastructure to create a lot of employment. In Germany after the war there…

— Raila Odinga

What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“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