Top 478 Roosevelt Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level.

It's hard pressed to find a better American role model than Teddy Roosevelt.

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

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

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.

If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term.

On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold.

They knew that Roosevelt and the Democratic party made a difference on them, on their quality of life issues, and they believed in that. But today it is completely different.

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

It is not overwhelming, like you are George Clooney, but at the Starbucks, at the 7-Eleven or walking around Manhattan or the Roosevelt Field Mall, I do get recognized. It's nice.

So the Republican party of Teddy Roosevelt and John McCain and Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush is dead. It's over. It doesn't exist anymore.

One of the greatest misconceptions about Theodore Roosevelt - in his time and ours - is that he was impetuous.

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.

Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis, and you have Umm Kulthum.

Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.

You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him.

My father's political heroes were Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

I love Teddy Roosevelt... As a country, we need to think big again.

It's interesting to me that really one of the first things she [Eleanor Roosevelt]did as First Lady was to collect her father's letters and publish a book called The Letters of My Father, essentially, hunting big game, The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt. And it really was an act of redemption, really one of her first acts of redemption as she entered the White House. She was going to redeem her father's honor. And publishing his letters, reconnecting with her childhood really fortified her to go on into the difficult White House years.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract."

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

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

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'

William McKinley has surely been underrated - in no small part because he was succeeded by a memorable leader, Theodore Roosevelt.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.

The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

From '45, the moment Franklin Roosevelt dies, we're running ratlines with the Germans, helping Nazis escape.

This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.

Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.

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

I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?

Roosevelt understands that there are things that are worth surrendering your career for, like defending the country against [Adolf] Hitler.

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

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

The United States has a long tradition of preserving the all-American outdoor experience, dating back to the days of President Theodore Roosevelt.

The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time.

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

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.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.