Roosevelt Quotes

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.

The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

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

I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.

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