#roosevelt

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#democrat #determined #era #franklin #i

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. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#ago #charisma #could #deserving #enormous

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. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#establish #i #i think #know #land

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#change #franklin #franklin roosevelt #great #how

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

#american workers #among #declined #dramatically #economic

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. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#anyway #around #could #east #europe

Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing. ↗

— John Perkins

#caught #embarrassing #had #lot #roosevelt

Well," Mr. Cheeseman interjected. "Perhaps there's an easy solution to this. Maybe Captain Fabulous has an alter ego." "What's an alter ego?" asked Gerard. "It's a superhero's true but secret identity," said Chip. "You know, the way that Superman is really Clark Kent." "Superman is really Clark Kent?" "It's pretty obvious," said Penny. "To everyone but you and Lois Lane." "Okay," Gerard conceded. "Captain Fabulous's alter ego will be...Teddy Roosevelt. ↗

— Cuthbert Soup

#clark-kent #funny #lois-lane #names #superhero

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#love #respect #love

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. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#could #facet #his #how #i