Political Quotes

“Because you could market those to local officials, and they could get a photo op in the paper, and then they would build an edifice that was a monument to their spending, and it was popular. In the end, what really happened is that I read every newspaper in our local town. Our newspaper was published twice a week. I went through that for the financial news from the crash of the stock market in 1929 October on up until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Now, people who were lined up for jobs, who were in soup lines, the advertisings and the stories told me things. By the time I got to December 7, 1941 and I had prepared to write this paper in support of FDR, I sat back and looked at the ceiling. I can still remember all of those wooden rods with the papers hanging on them, and I said, ``Huh. You know, FDR did something.'' He established the principle that the Federal Government had a responsibility for the standard of living of its citizens. That crossed the line from free enterprise and free market, and it raced us down this path toward a socialized economy. The lesson I saw was don't do that because it broadened and, perhaps, deepened the trough that the Great Depression was in. Barack Obama sees that as the salvation to a calamity, and now he's delivering to us the new New Deal. The old deal was a bad deal.”