A Quote by Rahm Emanuel

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.

Rahm Emanuel

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Rahm Emanuel
American - Politician
Born: November 29, 1959

Since Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the New Deal in the 1930s, radical conservatives have railed against the idea that the government should intervene in the economy.

Heather Cox Richardson

We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the United States in our history, bar none - including President Lincoln.

Nigel Hamilton

Reagan was the conservative Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Tim Matheson

You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.

Newt Gingrich

The real issue, as far as Democrats are concerned, is the number of people receiving something from the government. This is exactly what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had in mind when he created this monster. And Clinton is planning to expand it beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams.

Rush Limbaugh

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Jean Craighead George

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

Malcolm X

I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.

Warren Buffett

My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm a mean-spirited narrow-minded right-wing, conservative Christian ... I start out with that, and if you don't like it, you can lump it. I am not politically correct.

Jane Russell

Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue to vote the way they do.

Jackie Mason

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.

James Roosevelt

In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.

Edmund Morgan

When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the most critical moments of our history, he met that moment with courage and vision. His farsighted leadership in the postwar era has helped ever since to preserve peace and freedom in the world.

Richard M. Nixon

Franklin Delano Roosevelt eventually became the greatest liberal leader of 20th century United States, but he started as a fiscal conservative. His greatness is founded in his willingness to change his mind to save his country from the Great Depression.