Franklin Delano Roosevelt/governor of New York 1929%e2%80%931932

Famous quotes containing the words roosevelt, governor and/or york:

    “Yesterday, December 7, 1941Ma date that will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’”
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “I think that New York is not the cultural center of America, but the business and administrative center of American culture.”
    —Saul Bellow (b. 1915)