James Roosevelt Quotes

Roosevelt's New Deal regulated business, protected social welfare and promoted national infrastructure on the principle that the role of government was not simply to protect the property of the wealthy, but rather was to promote equality of opportunity for all.

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

The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.

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

They do not say Roosevelt saved our system. They say he has given us a new one. That is logical.

At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

I have always found Franklin Delano Roosevelt an amusing fellow, but I would not employ him, except for reasons of personal friendships, as a geek in a common carnival.

The New Deal was a socialist revolution.

[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt started more creations than were ever finished since Genesis—and finished none.

Meeting Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the first time was like having your first bottle of Champaign.

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.

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.

You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.

I vote for every privatization bill that I can. It is the Left that opposes privatization. They just want to preserve their government jobs.

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.

Bill O'Reilly is a socialist. He is in favor of Medicare, he is in favor of Social Security. Those are socialist programs.

No matter what the issue is, conservative principles are always better for people than big-government, liberal principles.

The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.

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.