Roosevelt Quotes

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.

- Lena Horne

I gotta feel like Eleanor Roosevelt was about as anti-Miranda as you can get. I guess I don`t want to do things that strike me as very Miranda.

- Cynthia Nixon

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

- Peter Jennings

(Quoted by Ted Morgan in the book "FDR", Simon & Schuster, 1985) I made one great mistake in my life - when I signed the letter to (President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) recommending that atom bombs be made . . . but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them.

- Albert Einstein

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

- David Bruce

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

- Marian Wright Edelman

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

- Patty Duke

I figured that first year would be swell. We`d do Roosevelt and Churchill, a couple of things like that, and that would be it,

- Peter Graves

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

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

- Winston Churchill

I am a Republican. I`m loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.

- John McCain

It`s easy to kick somebody when they`re down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I`ve told my colleagues it`s time that we go stand up for the president.

- John Boehner

It`s wide open. We just wanted to focus on Roosevelt this week and keep our focus one week at a time.

- David Barton

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

- Marsha Blackburn

(The Haunting of Winchester reaches beyond the pure ghost story. Appropriate to a woman who lived in her artwork and never received a single guest (even Teddy Roosevelt was denied), the story explores a woman`s inward journey and her dealings with issues like personal responsibility.) As she becomes more aware of the rifle`s legacy, ... she becomes more self-aware, and so she begins to transform, to renovate herself really, not just her house.

- Michael Butler

President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country`s retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.

- John Doolittle

My husband and I saw the Theodore Roosevelt hat rack, ... Mrs. Kearns` writing desk is here and so is Sen. Kearns` rocking chair. We thought growing up surrounded by history would be a privilege.

- Mary Kaye

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.

- Jeffrey Sachs

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

- Jeffrey Sachs

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

- Al Embry

This isn`t just about today, this about generations to come. And you`ve got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he`s done it.

- Alain Senderens

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.

- Alain Senderens

Roosevelt supported my suggestion that labor leaders who wanted to distinguish themselves should draw up such a code and let us take a look at it.

- Alex Aguila

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

- Alex Johnston

Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.

- Alex Johnston

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

- Alex Johnston

My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That`s what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.

- Amy Zeihen

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.

- Amy Zeihen

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.

- Andreas Schurig

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt`s influence in the world.

- Andrew Kaplan

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

- Andrew Kaplan

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country`s never been the same since.

- Andrew Kaplan

If FDR had lived, the cold war wouldn`t have developed the way it did, because Stalin would have tried to get along with Roosevelt.

- Andrew Kaplan

There`s a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

- Andrew Kaplan

He had more stamina than I will ever have. He came in with Roosevelt in 1932 and served two years under Harry Truman and they had a falling out, and my father, I think, quit about two minutes before Harry Truman fired him,

- Archie Seale

This was a gift from the ex-president Teddy Roosevelt.

- Arthur Wheaton

If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all of East and Southeast Europe along with the greater part of the Reich. An iron curtain would fall over this enormous territory controlled by the Soviet Union, behind which nations would be slaughtered.

- Joseph Goebbels