Political Quotes

“I received a call a few hours ago from someone I have known for a long time, a gentleman who I would say is in his early- to mid-nineties. He wanted me to stop saying that what we are facing is an unprecedented challenge. I was taken aback. I mean, none of us have ever lived through anything like this or confronted a situation that is as painful or so traumatic. He challenged me to do something that I had actually done a few years ago, but as it shows, even a few years erodes memory about things that happened long in the past. He challenged me to say: You know, everybody is comparing this to--the last time we had something like this, it required the Nation to react like we did in World War II. So it caused me to go back and look a little bit at the years before that great and bloody conflict. It is interesting. In the years leading up to 1941, President Roosevelt had an effort to pack the Supreme Court. It was incredibly controversial and ended up falling apart in 1937. It ended up falling apart actually because members of his own party turned against him, and it actually weakened him in the tail end of the second deal. President Roosevelt was so upset about what members of his own party had done to him that in 1938, he did something unprecedented at the time. He got involved in Democratic primaries and tried to defeat--take out--members of his own party who had opposed him.…”