“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, web.mit.edu
“For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the br…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, web.mit.edu
“They stood with us then because in 1932 they still believed. They stand with us today because in 1936 they know. And with them stand millions of new recruits who have come to know. Their hopes have become our record.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, web.mit.edu
“Here and now I want to make myself clear about those who disparage their fellow citizens on the relief rolls. They say that those on relief are not merely jobless — that they are worthless. Their solution for the relief problem is to end relief — to purge the rolls by starvation. To use the language…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, web.mit.edu
“On this idea, the first part of the Act proposes to our industry a great spontaneous cooperation to put millions of men back in their regular jobs this summer. The idea is simply for employers to hire more men to do the existing work by reducing the work-hours of each man's week and at the same time…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By 'business' I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by…”— Franklin D. Roosevelt, docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu
“I was trying to describe you to someone a few days ago. I finally ended up describing you as a movie I saw when I was a child. It was a movie about rural electrification. The movie was about farmers living in the country without electricity. I think I was seven, or eight, or six. They didn't have an…”— Richard Brautigan, amazon.com
“If we do what we have to do correctly, we can create the biggest economic boom in this country since the New Deal when our vast infrastructure was first put into place. It's a no-brainer. It's so obvious that even the Democrats can figure it out.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com