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

— Brion T. McClanahan

They do not say Roosevelt saved our system. They say he has given us a new one. That is logical.

— John T. Flynn

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

— Amity Shlaes

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

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

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former…

— John T. Flynn

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

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 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

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

— Caroline Lucas

I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great…

— Ed Crane

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's…

— W. Averell Harriman