Frances Perkins Quotes
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.
To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.