Top 53 Fdr's Quotes

#1. Jake Sullivan: FDR can go to hell. I'm a man. Not a type, not a number, and sure as hell not something that can be summed up as a logo to wear on my sleeve. A man. And I ain't registering nothing.

Larry Correia

Fdr's Quotes #19915
#2. The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores.

A.E. Samaan

Fdr's Quotes #54813
#3. It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.

Randall Wallace

Fdr's Quotes #59497
#4. FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That's much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it's almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Fdr's Quotes #150350
#5. If Obama learned one thing from FDR, it was that every socialist needs his foot soldiers.

Ben Shapiro

Fdr's Quotes #155397
#6. There's nothing sexier than a girl who's like, 'I know who FDR is, I know about the New Deal, I'm going to give you a new deal.' and then, over a period of years, she structures her sex acts in such a way that they save the economy.

Eugene Mirman

Fdr's Quotes #236944
#7. We're not going to have Medicare for all.if we at least we can take a step in that direction by giving people 50 - age 55 to 64 a chance to buy in, then we're reconnecting with some of those ideals that go back to the great days of FDR.

Dennis Kucinich

Fdr's Quotes #257875
#8. In 1938 ... the year's #1 newsmaker was not FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. Nor was it Lou Gehrig or Clark Gable. The subject of the most newspaper column inches in 1938 wasn't even a person. It was an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse named Seabiscuit.

Laura Hillenbrand

Fdr's Quotes #263796
#9. As smart as he was, though, I suspect even FDR didn't realize that once you created a bureaucracy, it took on a life of its own. It was almost impossible to close down a bureaucracy once it had been created.

Ronald Reagan

Fdr's Quotes #280377
#10. FDR, even weakened and near the end of his life, opted to allow disabled veterans to see his true condition. This allowed them to understand the life which could still be before them.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Fdr's Quotes #382645
#11. Wilkie got a bigger popular vote than FDR did, which of course meant nothing but it scared FDR. Hell,

Harry Homewood

Fdr's Quotes #398311
#12. Don't leave FDR-1 behind, I think to my fox.
Madox cocks his head like, Seriously, the damn iguana?

Victoria Scott

Fdr's Quotes #419793
#13. Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

Paul Krugman

Fdr's Quotes #492754
#14. You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

Mike Huckabee

Fdr's Quotes #493526
#15. Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

George Will

Fdr's Quotes #570454
#16. The genius of guys like Lincoln and Reagan and FDR - the great communicator leaders - is that they're actually educators, so they understand when they use a phrase that they have to explain it, because, by definition, you won't understand it or they wouldn't need to be using it.

Newt Gingrich

Fdr's Quotes #577494
#17. From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

Jon Meacham

Fdr's Quotes #622429
#18. When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you.

Gore Vidal

Fdr's Quotes #663344
#19. Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Winston S. Churchill

Fdr's Quotes #678162
#20. The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects ... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it.

Ronald Reagan

Fdr's Quotes #688421
#21. Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.

Adam McKay

Fdr's Quotes #712630
#22. was an eighth cousin of Churchill, and a sixth cousin, once removed, of FDR - and three of World War II's great leaders were thus linked by American intermarriages.

William Manchester

Fdr's Quotes #740835
#23. No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

Winston S. Churchill

Fdr's Quotes #805186
#24. If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts.

David Brin

Fdr's Quotes #811399
#25. Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.

Zell Miller

Fdr's Quotes #1030829
#26. FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain.

Arthur C. Brooks

Fdr's Quotes #1034092
#27. It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fdr's Quotes #1074690
#28. FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

Stuart Symington

Fdr's Quotes #1082778
#29. I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.

Jon Meacham

Fdr's Quotes #1183814
#30. Hitler didn't snub me - it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

Jesse Owens

Fdr's Quotes #1251742
#31. Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Fdr's Quotes #1269182
#32. I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

Kevin Costner

Fdr's Quotes #1310900
#33. FDR's job results were, to put it politely, disturbing.

Amity Shlaes

Fdr's Quotes #1372285
#34. The Founding Fathers are always spinning in their graves over something, as is Ronald Reagan, or FDR. Edward R. Murrow is a perennial grave spinner in the news business (though in fact, Murrow was cremated).

Mark Leibovich

Fdr's Quotes #1401039
#35. Irwin F. Gellman's Secret Affairs: FDR, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles,

Larry Kramer

Fdr's Quotes #1444309
#36. Thurmond - same thing. Kennedy, Eisenhower, Clinton ... all men of power, and the power went right to their pants. Even FDR fooled around. This

Billy Crystal

Fdr's Quotes #1465576
#37. They are unanimous in their hate for me; and I welcome their hatred. (quoting FDR announcing the Second New Deal, 1936)

Yanis Varoufakis

Fdr's Quotes #1500030
#38. The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.

Nigel Hamilton

Fdr's Quotes #1507837
#39. FDR, JFK, LBJ [all Democratic presidents ] we have a pretty long list of presidents who maybe were not entirely forthcoming with intelligence information before they went to war, so I'd be cautious against making legal cases against the administration.

Barack Obama

Fdr's Quotes #1511745
#40. It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

Russell Baker

Fdr's Quotes #1536622
#41. With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.

Bernard L. Schwartz

Fdr's Quotes #1550836
#42. Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

David Mamet

Fdr's Quotes #1585522
#43. Things sure have changed. FDR tried to calm us: "Nothing to fear but fear itself." Now politicians encourage the jitters. Panic is the new patriotism. "Today's Threat Level: Duck!

Tim Dorsey

Fdr's Quotes #1588329
#44. In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt. When FDR discovered the hoax in 1936, the two men decided to stay together for the sake of the children.

Johnny Carson

Fdr's Quotes #1610969
#45. Success will require the studied lack of sophistication of a Ronald Reagan and the casual dishonesty of an FDR. The president must appear to be not very bright yet be able to lie convincingly.

George Friedman

Fdr's Quotes #1652376
#46. We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.

Terence McKenna

Fdr's Quotes #1676980
#47. In Chicago [during the Great Depression], a crowd of some fifty hungry men fought over barrel of garbage set outside the back door of restaurant

William E. Leuchtenburg

Fdr's Quotes #1734981
#48. I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

Frances Perkins

Fdr's Quotes #1748036
#49. To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?

Richard D. Wolff

Fdr's Quotes #1818947
#50. Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

Jon Meacham

Fdr's Quotes #1821290
#51. I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.

Julie Roginsky

Fdr's Quotes #1841305
#52. FDR's justices were allies while he was alive, but after he died, they developed four totally different theories of what the Constitution is, two of which are considered conservative and two of which are considered liberal.

Noah Feldman

Fdr's Quotes #1858457
#53. Since his inauguration in 2009, President Obama has upheld FDR's vision of America as a nation that keeps its word - a nation still committed to uphold the 'four freedoms' that President Roosevelt set down in the great Atlantic Charter of August 1941.

Nigel Hamilton

Fdr's Quotes #1876533

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