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It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
— Richard Dawkins
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
— Winston S. Churchill
Bergen, and Oldfield. The
— James Ellroy
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
— Elizabeth A. Johnson
They are unanimous in their hate for me; and I welcome their hatred. (quoting FDR announcing the Second New Deal, 1936)
— Yanis Varoufakis
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
— Frances Perkins
It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.
— Russell Baker
FDR's job results were, to put it politely, disturbing.
— Amity Shlaes
Your firstborn son, Claudius, was all a man could hope for - a son better and wiser than his father.
— Pierce Brown
Wilkie got a bigger popular vote than FDR did, which of course meant nothing but it scared FDR. Hell,
— Harry Homewood
Thurmond - same thing. Kennedy, Eisenhower, Clinton ... all men of power, and the power went right to their pants. Even FDR fooled around. This
— Billy Crystal
In Chicago [during the Great Depression], a crowd of some fifty hungry men fought over barrel of garbage set outside the back door of restaurant
— William E. Leuchtenburg
If Obama learned one thing from FDR, it was that every socialist needs his foot soldiers.
— Ben Shapiro
The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores.
— A.E. Samaan
It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.
— Randall Wallace
An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.
— Blaise Pascal
Don't leave FDR-1 behind, I think to my fox.
Madox cocks his head like, Seriously, the damn iguana? — Victoria Scott
Madox cocks his head like, Seriously, the damn iguana? — Victoria Scott
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
— Winston S. Churchill
When Franklin says yes, yes, yes, he isn't agreeing with you. He's just listening to you.
— Gore Vidal
Do you like it? she asks. Universal bitch speak for I think it's hideous.
— Stephanie Perkins
Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Hitler didn't snub me - it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.
— Jesse Owens
You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.
— Mike Huckabee
Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin