FDR

As statesman, diplomatist, economist, philosopher and scientist he would have a claim upon the respect of posterity even though he had not given us the immortal 'Autobiography.'

The Secretary of State is authorized in his discretion to waive the passport and visa requirements in cases of emergency for non-immigrant aliens.

I do not at this time raise that issue because for the present it is more important for all of us to cooperate in preventing serious bankruptcies among a large number of railroad companies, great and small.

It is true that a general upturn in business would undoubtedly help to keep many railroads from actual receivership.

Most of us have definite objection to Government subsidies to the railroads to enable them to meet the interest on their outstanding bonds or for any other purpose, and most of us also oppose Government ownership and operation of the…

We need to get a full-sized, all-weather airport as quickly as possible.

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 amended (U.S.C., title 22, secs…

That is the kind of thing that we are trying to eliminate, and that is all.

Money spent by the Government during the past few years and money that will be spent in the next few years is not merely money to put people to work at that particular moment with merely the result of adding to the national debt.

I don't begin to get from industry any kind of active, two-fisted support for such legislation.

It is ordered that all lands owned or controlled by the United States within the following-described area in Dare County, North Carolina, be, and they are hereby, reserved and set apart, subject to valid existing rights, for the use of the…

It makes for radicalism.

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.

That is pure selfishness.

I think that is a pretty narrow view to take.

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 find in what might be called 'the opposition press' of all kinds, the 'Yes, but—' attitude.

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

I would just as soon start with the present average scale.

But do I get any help from industry for a wages and hours bill along that line? No.

That is my complaint: I do not get two-fisted support.

I will rock along all right.

We figured at that time that at a total ultimate cost of between three and four hundred million dollars we would eliminate, in toto, that annual cost of twenty-five or thirty million dollars.

From the business point of view, that is pretty good financing.

I do hereby exempt Frank B. Bourn from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until July 1, 1939.