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The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.
— Kenneth Tynan
His one passion was for the game of golf, which Roosevelt found excruciatingly dull and slow.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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
I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
— Camille Paglia
The distinctive crimes of this generation are crimes of subtlety and finesse. - ALEXANDER S. BACON 1908 — J.M. Carlisle
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
— Pete Du Pont
Roosevelt is dead: a man who would never tell the truth when a lie would serve him just as well.
— Douglas MacArthur
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
— Patty Duke
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.
— John F. Kerry
If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?
— Preston Sturges
The New York Times, whose editorial department sounds like Cotton Mather rewriting Eleanor Roosevelt ...
— William F. Buckley Jr.
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
British and Free French in the Mediterranean were fighting to retain their colonial empires. Roosevelt said he hoped to
— Stephen E. Ambrose
Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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
If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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
Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'
— Douglas Brinkley
Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said, "America's greatest contribution to the world is the summer camp." Anyone
— Susan Wiggs
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
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
— Clare Boothe Luce
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
— Julia Cameron
On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold.
— Michael Maloney
The greatest thing I have learned is how good it is to come home again. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
— Noelle Hancock
The government is us; WE are the government, you and I.- Theodore Roosevelt
— Theodore Roosevelt
What a great man. There aren't very many of them left. I can't wait to see his other policies. Hope he's the next Teddy Roosevelt!
— Brad McKinniss
He hadn't even come to the Teddy Roosevelt School with Sampson.
— James Patterson
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Still, Roosevelt noted, it was "not always easy to strike the just middle," and he inevitably made mistakes.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt.
— Barack Obama
Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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
Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.
— Douglas Brinkley
Just because we cannot stop all the large leaks, that is no reason why we should open up all the little ones."T. Roosevelt — Edmund Morris
One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.
— Robert Kennedy
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.-Roosevelt to Churchill — Franklin D. Roosevelt
This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.
— Samuel Untermyer
I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
— Jean Craighead George
Books are the ammunition of life.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Mrs. Roosevelt felt, was the fault of society; a civilization which does not provide young people with a way to earn a living is pretty poor,
— Robert A. Caro
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
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
Ours is not the creed of the weakling and the coward; ours is the gospel of hope and triumphant endeavor." Theodore Roosevelt
— Ryan Stallings
Roosevelt declared, arguing that the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Roosevelt repeatedly brought his clenched fist down on the palm of his other hand.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
— Eleanor Roosevelt