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America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children. -- Richard Lamm
The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children. -- Richard Lamm
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice. -- Garet Garrett
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal. -- Charles Krauthammer
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
Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation. -- Christina Romer
Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage. They are the ones who are going to have to pay far greater taxes. They are the future's forgotten men. -- Amity Shlaes
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? -- H. G. Wells
A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold War was Johnson's vehicle for expanding the Southern economy and making it, as he hoped, one of the more prosperous regions of the country. -- Robert Dallek
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did. -- Garet Garrett
Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown. -- Lucy Powell
No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in our new New Deal. But many masters of the old universe, including quite possibly his chief economic adviser, can't recognize that the world has changed or should change. -- Frank Rich
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities. -- Lawrence Lessig
Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. -- Ronald Reagan
The fact is that the New Deal was, overall, a dismal failure. -- Mark Levin
Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal. -- George Will
Well, before the New Deal...[The Emancipation Proclamation] would be a good start. -- Ann Coulter
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers. -- Adlai Stevenson
The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers." -- Adlai Stevenson
Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform. -- Michael Parenti
The Green New Deal is about creating economic security for everyone, and doing it quickly. -- Jill Stein
Maybe he [Bernie Sanders] still thinks about the Democratic Party as the party of the New Deal. -- Jill Stein
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes. -- Thomas Dewey
My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes. -- Thomas Dewey
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. -- Garet Garrett
The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. -- Garet Garrett
Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture. -- Herbert Hoover
We didn't admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started. -- Rexford Tugwell
The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end. -- Richard Allen Epstein
To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them. -- Rexford Tugwell
McCain likes strong defense, and he's viscerally suspicious of big companies. So he's more a Square Deal guy than a New Deal guy. -- Amity Shlaes
The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933. -- Ludwig von Mises
The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace. -- H. L. Mencken
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
What saved the economy, and the New Deal was the enormous public-works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs. -- Paul Krugman
We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal. -- Mitch McConnell
The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover's aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover -- Rexford Tugwell
The New Deal exists principally on an emotional plane for Obama. To him, the New Deal is something you play like a song, to make you or your constituents feel better. -- Amity Shlaes
This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly changing social, economic, and technological conditions. -- Stephen Breyer
During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net. -- Noah Feldman
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse. -- Herbert Hoover
Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time." -- Ronald Reagan
Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing. -- Leonard Read
Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time. -- Ronald Reagan
Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time. -- Ronald Reagan
If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. -- Strom Thurmond
Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year in and year out, in Democrat or Republican regimes, in good times and in bad. -- Murray Rothbard
F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed. -- Jeff Greenfield
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
That's in part what the Green New Deal is designed to do. So it's not only to address the climate emergency, but also to address the economic emergency, because the recovery has really gone to the top. -- Jill Stein
I came to believe that actually [Louis] Brandeis tended to uphold laws that he liked and strike down those that he didn't, generally strike down centralizing federal agencies in the New Deal, and uphold state economic experimentation. -- Jeffrey Rosen
I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except for the flavouring. -- Albert Jay Nock
The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without. -- H. L. Mencken
If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back. -- Rush Limbaugh
When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women. -- Lael Brainard
When the New Deal programs were passed in the mid 1930s, millions of workers were joining unions, striking, and occupying factories to fight for a better life. It was this radical labor movement that forced the establishment to make concessions. -- Kshama Sawant
Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'Ãªtre of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit. -- Richard Allen Epstein
Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law out of New Deal nostalgia is a form of national narcissism. Call it New Deal narcissism. -- Amity Shlaes
We call for a green New Deal, like the New Deal that got us out of the Great Depression, but in this case focusing on green jobs to create 100% clean renewable energy by 2030, which is exactly what the science calls for. -- Jill Stein
Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter. -- Helen Thomas
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
Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. -- Norman Cousins
It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills. -- Douglas Brinkley
I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression - one of those brass clocks that didn't work - but it showed Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at the wheel of the New Deal. -- Nat Hentoff
You can see our media appearances as well as connect to Our Power to the People Agenda, Our Green New Deal, our plan to abolish student debt and our plan to actually create a whole new foreign policy based on international law and human rights. -- Jill Stein
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not have a real discussion of the emergency of climate change and why in fact we need a Green New Deal type national mobilization at the scale of a wartime mobilization in order to address this emergency. -- Jill Stein
The fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow to world prosperity that ended up in a war that killed countless millions. It was one of the greatest acts of wreckage in world history. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
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
By laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal made possible the great postwar housing boom that populated the Sun Belt and boosted millions of Americans into the middle class, where, ironically, they often became Republicans. -- Jonathan Alter
By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal. -- O. Henry
As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs. -- Ron Jaworski
Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture. -- Andrew Mason
When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most successful. So what we have to continue to try and do is to battle with ideas and find new ways of applying those values as the world changes. -- John Reid
It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit. -- Lucy Powell
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Each new deal is another opportunity. -- Bernie Ecclestone
Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal. -- Henry Ford
New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal. -- Johnny Damon
A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.' -- Alvin Dark
We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution. -- Chen Shui-bian
In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis. -- Ryan Gosling
The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon. -- Theresa May
I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal. -- Katharine Weymouth
Bryant Gumbel is thrilled about his CBS deal and can't wait to start alienating the staff of an entirely new network. -- Craig Kilborn
I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal. -- Norah Jones
We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that. -- James Iha
We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do. -- Thomas Jefferson
I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up. -- Linus Torvalds
I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content. -- Stephen Shore
As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything. -- Mike Gordon
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets. -- James Laughlin
I'm suggesting that principles meant to deal with uncertainty that occurs naturally can be useful to manage the uncertainty that characterizes any new idea. -- Scott D. Anthony
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way. -- Carol Ann Duffy
It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other. -- Terence McKenna
If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal. -- Kara Hayward
In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them. -- Pat Summitt
Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops. -- Langhorne Slim
The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with. -- Amitai Etzioni
But if it comes down to next year, I'll be picketing outside of Halas Hall for a new deal, a new contract, because I'm not going anyplace. -- Brandon Marshall
God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people. -- Patrick Henry Hughes
There are no new cash payments or obligations here. This is an accounting reflection of the deal they announced on Monday. It`s all by the books. -- Marc Cohn
Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design. -- Philippe Starck
This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules. -- Kehinde Wiley
New clothes are a great way to deal after a breakup. A good mix CD also helps you get through it and... you know, 72 hours of ice cream. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it. -- Aphex Twin
I am going to renegotiate NAFTA. And if I can't make a great deal - then we're going to terminate NAFTA and we're going to create new deals. -- Donald Trump
[Donald Trump] has got his own controversies to deal with. The business conflicts are a big one. But he`s creating new ones. There`s no precedent for it. -- Chuck Todd
We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises. -- Pope Francis
I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day. -- Rico Lebrun
Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal. -- Paul Frank Baer

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