1. “At one of his earliest press conferences, Roosevelt compared himself to a quarterback in a football game. The quarterback knows what the next play will be, but beyond that he cannot predict or plan too rigidly because ‘future plays will depend on how the next one works.’ The New Deal will never be understood by anyone who looks for a single thread of policy, a far-reaching, far-seeing plan. It was a series of improvisations, may adopted very suddenly….” - Richard Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition

2. The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? -H. G. Wells

3. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937