 I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me. Author: Allen Funt
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| The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! Author: Arthur Hertzberg
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| Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt. Author: Bruce Babbitt
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| 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. Author: Bruce Babbitt
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| I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was. Author: Clifton Daniel
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| My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs. Author: David Bruce
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| Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio. Author: David R. Gergen
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| 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. Author: Emanuel Celler
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| Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new. Author: Emanuel Celler
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| Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues. Author: Gaylord Nelson
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| Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life. Author: Gaylord Nelson
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| 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. Author: Gaylord Nelson
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| I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind. Author: George C. Marshall
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| Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter. Author: Gerald R. Ford
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| It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Author: James Roosevelt
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| Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want. Author: Jeffrey Sachs
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| The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity. Author: Jeffrey Sachs
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| 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.' Author: Joe Biden
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| It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president. Author: John Boehner
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| President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts. Author: John Doolittle
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| I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline. Author: John McCain
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| Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing. Author: John Perkins
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| But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes. Author: John T. Flynn
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| 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. Author: John T. Flynn
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| 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. Author: John T. Flynn
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| The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls. Author: John T. Flynn
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| They do not say Roosevelt saved our system. They say he has given us a new one. That is logical. Author: John T. Flynn
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| I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years. Author: Lena Horne
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| No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. Author: Marian Wright Edelman
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| Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is. Author: Marsha Blackburn
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| I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it. Author: Otis Blackwell
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| Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well. Author: Patrick J. Kennedy
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| The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure. Author: Patty Duke
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| Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda. Author: Pete du Pont
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| Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change. Author: Pete du Pont
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| 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. Author: Pete McCloskey
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| 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. Author: Peter Agre
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| 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. Author: Peter Jennings
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| I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. Author: Rahm Emanuel
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| My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses. Author: Richard M. Daley
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| They knew that Roosevelt and the Democratic party made a difference on them, on their quality of life issues, and they believed in that. But today it is completely different. Author: Richard M. Daley
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| If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave. Author: Samuel Goldwyn
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| When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa. Author: Sargent Shriver
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| Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt. Author: Shel Silverstein
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| 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. Author: Steve Israel
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| 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. Author: Susan George
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| For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. Author: Sydney Pollack
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| 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. Author: W. Averell Harriman
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| 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. Author: W. Averell Harriman
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| 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. Author: W. Averell Harriman
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| There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta. Author: W. Averell Harriman
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| Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. Author: Winston Churchill
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