“ 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. ”
- Allen Funt- Copy
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“ I've heard a great many flattering things about Roosevelt, but never that he was notable for his skill in administration. ”
- David Bruce- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. ”
- Clare Boothe Luce- Copy
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“ Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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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. ”
- John McCain- Copy
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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. ”
- George C. Marshall- Copy
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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! ”
- Arthur Hertzberg- Copy
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“ There was general consternation, if one can put it that way, especially amongst those people who knew little of Vice President Truman, about the new President Truman. From what I had heard of President Truman, I wasn't unduly disturbed because I thought that President Roosevelt's health had already failed so seriously, that it was simply a matter of time before there would be such a succession. ”
- David Bruce- Copy
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“ This was a man who - from the prison of his own leg-braces - championed global freedom. In the largest sense, Roosevelt understood that if this earth is to prosper and thrive, all people must have access to the promise. ”
- Abdallah II- Copy
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“ REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous; needless; de trop. The Sultan said: "There's evidence abundant To prove this unbelieving dog redundant." To whom the Grand Vizier, with mien impressive, Replied: "His head, at least, appears excessive." Habeeb Suleiman Mr… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher — a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away… ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat "Avoid foreign entanglements." All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover. ”
- Robert E. Sherwood- Copy
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