Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes in FDR: American Badass! (2012)

Louis: Did you debrief him?

Eleanor Roosevelt: Yes.

Louis: Cool. I hate when I have to take his boxers off.

Eleanor Roosevelt: I have this naive view that you should pursue principles without calculating the consequences.

Louis Howe: You're no politician.

Louis Howe: You don't have to remember a thing. You just read it!

Eleanor Roosevelt: I don't like *reading* a speech.

Louis Howe: Did you think the Gettysburg Address was ad-libbed?

Eleanor Roosevelt: Franklin, may I say a word?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Certainly, if you're going to agree with me.

Eleanor Roosevelt: Then I have nothing to say.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: That is hardly a sign of wifely devotion.