Franklin Quotes - Page 5

• Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

  Evan Bayh

  Sports, Country, Baseball

  "Why I’m Leaving the Senate" by Evan Bayh, www.nytimes.com. February 20, 2010.

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• When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

  Joe Biden

  Greed, Looks, Television

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• I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program.

  Oliver Stone

  Dad, Father, Intelligent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Issues, President, Easy

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• Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

  Elayne Boosler

  Couple, Two, Speech

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• Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

  Tracy Chapman

  Mother, Growing Up, Singing

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

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Wine, Knowing

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• Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.

  Beth Ditto

  Christian, Mom, Teenage

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• 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.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Country, Recovery, Negative

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

  Pete du Pont

  President, Authority, Warrants

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• One has to say that they [Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt] were pioneering to some extent. They didn't know that some of the housing projects that they were putting up for the poor were going to turn into crack dens and rapists' bowers and things of that sort, which they have since become. But you can't always foresee the future. I'm sure their intentions were the best.

  William A. Rusher

  Cracks, Intention, Poor

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Years, Problem, Attributes

  Source: progressive.org

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• [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Two, Peaceful

  Source: progressive.org

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• I love Aretha [Franklin] and I've loved her all my life. I think she's an incredible songstress, obviously. She consistently has had this incredible voice. I remember when she was singing gospel in her father's church.

  Stevie Wonder

  Father, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up listening to Commission, Kirk Franklin and Hezekiah Walker. If I was found listening to any rap, my pops would throw them out, or crush the CDs and tapes - literally.

  Rahki

  Crush, Rap, Cds

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• I grew up in the church not being able to listen to anything but gospel. So, while [other] people grew up with their parents listening to Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, I never knew they existed until I was able to listen to what I wanted to.

  Rahki

  People, Parent, Listening

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• I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.

  Iggy Pop

  Style, Singers, Records

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• But he [Franklin Roosevelt] specifically prohibits any black participation from the Deep South, something which just infuriates people who'd been his supporters and who'd believed in him and resides that he is just shockingly abandoned the right of the people to rule. It's a pretty horrible story in that respect.

  Geoffrey Cowan

  People, Black, Stories

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Queens, Play, Soul

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• And of course, FDR was very charming. At 6'2", he was tall enough to be her beau, and they made a beautiful couple. And she could encourage him. His mother also encouraged him. So this notion of a woman with ideas of her own and a spirit of her own and a style of her own was very congenial to Franklin. And he loved her. And their romance was a very dear and true and deep romance.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Beautiful, Mother, Couple

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all; and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.

  Theodore Parker

  Religious, Men, Lines

  "The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Historic Americans".

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• I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I don't think that that was the main point. The main point was that she, after all, connoted Franklin Roosevelt, who by then was long dead, and had a certain prestige and power on that account.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

  Mark Shields

  Progress, Littles, Add

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Resentment, Founders

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• 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

  War, Leader, Alliances

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