Newt Gingrich Quotes

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.

I was a big admirer of F.D.R. He saved Britain.

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

In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.

You know who was a hero? Franklin Roosevelt.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight the Great Depression with the same resolve he would muster against a foreign foe, were aimed at reassuring Americans.

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.

Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who died of a cerebral hemorrhage or massive stroke on April 12, 1945, only three weeks before the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces he had laid down as implacable Allied policy two years before.

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

When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think.

Roosevelt or Ruin

I've always voted for Franklin Roosevelt for President. My father before me always voted for Franklin Roosevelt for President.

FDR’s War Plans

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an immortal leader of humanity and a peerless servant of God.

Lyndon Johnson was eleven of the most interesting people I ever met

With some of Mr. Roosevelt's political acts I could never possibly agree. But I knew him solely in his capacity as leader of a nation at war -- and in that capacity he seemed to me to fulfill all that could possibly be expected of him.

For a generation, Republicans have tried to unravel the activist government under which Americans have lived since the 1930s, when Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt created a government that regulated business, provided a basic social safety net, and invested in infrastructure.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to find a way to help the American people. In 1933, he created a relief program known as the New Deal. Two years later, he expanded the New Deal by adding the Works Progress Administration, which was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939.

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