Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"Whenever you start to get a wages and hours bill, the Congressman for that particular district gets a piteous plea, 'For God's sake don't do anything or you won't go back to Congress.'"

"I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim that provisions have been made to that effect by Norway and declare the aforesaid act approved June 11, 1864, as..."

"I have been getting along with a perfectly inefficient machine for five years, and I can do it for the next three and one-quarter years."

"We hope they will be going in a private capitalistic system."