Administration Quote by William Howard Taft

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

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have…

— Pete du Pont

I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry Truman imposed…

— Gore Vidal

He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White…

— William Howard Taft

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

“All this is to offer the heresy that the role of presidential leadership, yet another shadow cast by the Roosevelt years, is often exaggerated.…

— James T. Patterson

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

You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done.

— Benjamin Wittes

The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It wasobviated in the State Department…

— William Howard Taft

Believe you can and you're halfway there. --Theodore Roosevelt

— Anonymous

“And it was no accident, in the late forties, that the makers of American policy, unwilling to backtrack with the public, began to try…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

I often ask myself: "What would Theodore Roosevelt do?" One can never know, of course. The ultimate contribution of consequential leaders is often their…

— James M Strock