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My dad was a [Theodor] Roosevelt Democrat. -- Bill Ayers
You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues. -- Gaylord Nelson
If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave. -- Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt. -- Malcolm X
Eleanor Roosevelt said, always do what you`re afraid to do. -- Chris Matthews
If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave. -- Samuel Goldwyn
Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life. -- Gaylord Nelson
I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it. -- Mike Wallace
Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig. -- Alec Sulkin
[John] McCain references favorite presidents like Teddy Roosevelt. Hillary cited Eleanor Roosevelt. -- Paul Kengor
Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio. -- David Gergen
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty? -- Preston Sturges
When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think. -- Gore Vidal
Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want. -- Jeffrey Sachs
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt... -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. -- Jean Craighead George
I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty. -- Hank Johnson
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt. -- Clare Boothe Luce
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure -- Patty Duke
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure. -- Patty Duke
I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.' -- Esther Peterson
If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term. -- Robert Dallek
She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. -- Ralph McGill
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No. -- Douglas Brinkley
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt. -- Winston Churchill
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you. -- Horace
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. -- Marian Wright Edelman
To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne. -- Winston Churchill
On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold. -- Michael Maloney
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta. -- W. Averell Harriman
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.' -- Douglas Brinkley
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. -- Winston Churchill
The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden. -- Kenneth Tynan
...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy. -- Randall Wallace
Teddy Roosevelt spoke softly and carried a big stick; Donald Trump speaks loudly and carries a big shtick. -- Michael R. Burch
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt faced adversities that, in their times, seemed impregnable. Great presidents overcome great odds. -- Ron Fournier
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change. -- Pete du Pont
Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt -- John Taliaferro
Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight. -- Thomas R. Marshall
I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money. -- Warren Buffett
The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt. -- Barack Obama
Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906] -- Edmund Morris
[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt. -- Barbara Boxer
This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration. -- Samuel Untermyer
My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs. -- David K. E. Bruce
Americans have not had a presidential choice since 1932. Roosevelt was our man; every president since Roosevelt has been our man. -- Harold Wallace Rosenthal
Roosevelt understands that there are things that are worth surrendering your career for, like defending the country against [Adolf] Hitler. -- Michael Beschloss
If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier. -- Will Rogers
In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract." -- Mike DeWine
They do not say Roosevelt saved our system. They say he has given us a new one. That is logical. -- John T. Flynn
Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle. -- Douglas Brinkley
Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined. -- Calvin Coolidge
Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things. -- John F. Kerry
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job. -- Winston Churchill
I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much? -- Mel Brooks
I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era. -- Camille Paglia
My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt. -- Lionel Barber
The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security. -- Christine Pelosi
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war. -- Robert Dallek
If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. -- Drew Carey
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa. -- Sargent Shriver
As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution. -- Andy Borowitz
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them. -- Ken Livingstone
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. -- Russell Baker
Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter. -- Gerald R. Ford
We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse. -- Jon Meacham
Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat. -- Gale Norton
I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was. -- Clifton Daniel
I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio. -- Ann Richards
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure. -- Emanuel Celler
Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined. -- Steve Israel
The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight. -- Douglas Brinkley
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality. -- John T. Flynn
I think Franklin Roosevelt was a lousy president. What he did- which is to impose this great nanny state on America- was a great mistake. -- Ed Crane
I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well known, and still isn't. -- Noam Chomsky
There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around. -- Gaylord Nelson
In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil. -- Michael Mandelbaum
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda." -- Ron Fournier
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda. -- Ron Fournier
So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her husband's policies? -- Blanche Wiesen Cook
Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age. -- H.W. Brands
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'. -- Winston Churchill
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'. -- Winston Churchill
George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. -- John Lewis Gaddis
The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president. -- Chris Van Hollen
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' -- Joe Biden
Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him. -- Kurt Vonnegut
My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he saw a nation that was broken economically. -- Dennis Kucinich
President Roosevelt proved that a President could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country can be run without a President. -- Nikita Khrushchev
I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running. -- Harold Ford, Jr.
The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. -- Gutzon Borglum
There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates. -- Madeleine Albright
It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did. -- Peter Jennings
Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue to vote the way they do. -- Jackie Mason
I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world. -- W. Averell Harriman
Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt. -- Peter Agre
The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace. -- H. L. Mencken
There are bursts of things like Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan or Franklin Delano Roosevelt or same-sex marriage that change very much what we thought we were all about. -- Cass Sunstein
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since. -- W. Averell Harriman
We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians. -- Pete McCloskey
I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt. -- Susan George
This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it. -- Bruce Babbitt
I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country. -- John T. Flynn
Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon. -- Joe Klein
Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement. -- W. Averell Harriman
During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram in which Elliott suggested that the Roosevelt family favored Lyndon Johnson. -- Robert Dallek
If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. -- Jeff Greenfield
George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House. -- Jeff Greenfield
President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business. -- John Hoeven
My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was. -- Nat Hentoff
In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle against Nazi totalitarianism. Among them was the freedom from fear. -- Robert Dallek

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