Bills Quote by Robert Dallek

F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that…

— Jeff Greenfield

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became…

— Ben Bernanke

“As Melvin Laird, his Defense Secretary, recalled, "Every effort was made to create an economic boom for the 1972 election. The Defense Department, for…

— James T. Patterson

Everything [Ronald Reagan] got, the tax cuts, he had Democrats outnumbering him in the House and Senate everywhere. There were certain realities that he…

— Rush Limbaugh

We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't…

— Lloyd Blankfein

“The Jim Crow South,” writes Ira Katznelson, a history and political science professor at Columbia, “was the one collaborator America’s democracy could not do…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

“Back in July 2003, he’d written them a long essay on the causes and consequences of what he took to be a likely housing…

— Michael Lewis

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

— William O'Neill

Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social justice to…

— Ed Royce

“From the founding of the Republic to 1929, spending by governments at all levels, federal, state, and local, never exceeded 12 percent of the…

— Milton Friedman

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have…

— Rahm Emanuel