"Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them." — Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.