Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"Ten years ago public erection of fifty-one big, carefully planned community projects, replacing festering slum areas, would have seemed incredible."

"What I am placing before you is the request not for more power, but for the tools of management and the authority to distribute the work."

"it is further ordered that the said tract of land be, and it is hereby, reserved for townsite purposes"

"Reorganization is not a mechanical task, but a human task, because Government is not a machine, but a living organism."