Works Progress Administration Quotes

#1. The so-called second New Deal of 1935 - including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor - represented an effort to meet the rising voices demanding a more aggressive government approach to the collapse of national prosperity.

Robert Dallek

#2. By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm.

Gore Vidal

#3. Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Thomas Sowell

#4. I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

Terry Bradshaw

#5. To deny God, is to deny the soul.

K.A. Hosein

#6. In addition to Eisenhower identifying the military-industrial complex, we now have the police-industrial complex, the medical-industrial complex, the surveillance-industrial complex, and the media-industrial complex.

Ron Paul

#7. The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

Saadi

#8. You can't forgive your sin. Only God can.

Johnny Hunt

#9. Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

Hugh Howey

#10. It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

Jonathan Ive