Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I am told by the engineer in charge that here in Grafton there are no people who want work who cannot get work.

The truth is that we are doing better than we anticipated in 1933.

The money to run the Government comes from taxes; and the tax revenue in turn depends for its size on the size of the national income.

Our national income had declined over 50 percent—and, what was worse, it showed no prospect of recuperating by itself.