Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"Incidentally, another reason why, in all human probability, it won't get beyond the ten to eighteen percent of Government by either area or population or bulk power, is the fact that if any more were ..."

"The Government isn't in that area in any shape, manner or form."

"Eighteen percent would seem to be the total limit of government competition with the private plants."

"The apparent need for expenditures in the coming year runs from a billion and a quarter dollars to a billion and a half."