Criticizing the limitations of Roosevelt's New Deal: 'Not a single thin dime of concentrated, bloated, pompous wealth, massed in the hands of a few people, has been raked down to relieve the masses.'

After rejecting a naval appropriations bill in the Senate: 'I would prefer to vote this billion dollars to feed the starving rather than for more battleships t…

In response to being compared to Adolf Hitler: 'Don't liken me to that sonofabitch. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice …

'There is no dictatorship in Louisiana. There is a perfect democracy there, and when you have a perfect democracy it is pretty hard to tell it from a dictators…

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.

Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive bec…