Harold L. Ickes

“We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.”

“I am the New Deal's 'curmudgeon-in-chief.'”

“I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat.”

“We are not going to be able to operate our half of the world if we are not prepared to take the lead in it.”

“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.”

“An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”

“He is a self-made man who worships his creator.”

“He has halitosis of the intellect.”

“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”

“A man has to be very careful, in a position of power, to remember that he is not God.”

“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”

“The best stimulus for running is to have somebody chasing you.”