Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes in FDR: American Badass! (2012)

Guy on dock: Yeah, keep laughin', boys... You think God blessed Tommy?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Hold on a minute, fellas. Who's Tommy?

Guy on dock: Tommy? Tommy used to work on the docks... Union's been on strike... Down on his luck... It's tough...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Sooo tough.

Louis: How are you feeling, Frank?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Like a bag full of dicks at a lesbian convention.

Reporter Robert Bruckner: What was it like being attacked by a werewolf, Governor?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: About the same as having your money in the stock market these days.

Louis: Here's the paper, by the way.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Thank you. Let's see... Oh, American hero and werewolf killer... Franklin Delano announces he's running for President... Thank you, Mmm-hmm... I hope it mentions something about my cock still working.

Louis: No.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Well, shit, call them up! I want a press release first thing in the morning.

Louis: Before we do that...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Let's leak them a picture, too.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Does my cock still work?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: MOTHERFUCKERRR!

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Fuck Polio!

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Aw, shit Goblins!

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Beautiful melons, Ma'am.

Marietta Buford: They sure are ripe for the picking!

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I meant your tits.

Marietta Buford: So did I.

Cleavon Buford: Congressman Cleavon Baybridge Buford... 'Repube,' Georgia.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Nice to meet you.

Cleavon Buford: Yes, you too.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Did you just say 'Repube?'

Cleavon Buford: Mmm-hmm... yes, sir.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: You mean Republican?

Cleavon Buford: No, sir. The form I filled out when I ran for Congress said 'Repube' on it. It was a professional form, sir. It was typed on paper... maybe even double spaced.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I think you meant 'Repub,' short for Republican.

Cleavon Buford: No, sir! I saved the form, sir. It is inside a folder marked official on it, so I know that it is real.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Tell Eleanor I love her!

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Marco... Polio!

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Hoover was great... they'll probably name a dam or a vacuum cleaner after him sometime in the near future.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [putting on his hat to wave at the photographers that he has eluded by boarding the train secretly] Do I look snappy?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I have no intention of retiring to Hyde Park and rusticating.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I feel I've had to go through the fire for some reason. Eleanor, it's a hard way to learn humility, but I've had to learn it by crawling. I know what is meant "You must learn to crawl, before you can walk."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I often think of something Woodrow Wilson said to me. It is only once in a generation the people can be lifted above material things. That is why conservative government is in the saddle for two thirds of the time.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Caution, my friend, is the refuge of cowards.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Most of our blessings come in heavy disguises.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I have no personal complaints. I'm lucky. I had rich parents.

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.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: When you're forced to sit a lot, and watch others move about, you feel apart, lonely - because you can't get up and pace around.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Louis, why in hell must you keep pacing up and down?

Louis Howe: I'm nervous!

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: There is nothing so unattractive to a party as a defeated candidate.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Good morning to you, Mr. Howe. You're looking your usual dyspeptic self.

Louis Howe: None of your amiable chatter, please.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: God has an infinite variety of tasks. I don't believe he's available as campaign manager.