Sunrise at Campobello

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
[putting on his hat to wave at the photographers that he has eluded by boarding the train secretly] Do I look snappy?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
I have no intention of retiring to Hyde Park and rusticating.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
I feel I've had to go through the fire for some reason. Eleanor, it's a hard way to learn humility, but I've had to learn it by crawling. I know what is meant "You must learn to crawl, before you can walk."

Gov. Alfred E. Smith:
You were both too surprised to *be* surprised.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
When you're forced to sit a lot, and watch others move about, you feel apart, lonely - because you can't get up and pace around.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Louis, why in hell must you keep pacing up and down?

Louis Howe:
I'm nervous!

Eleanor Roosevelt:
I have this naive view that you should pursue principles without calculating the consequences.

Louis Howe:
You're no politician.

Louis Howe:
You don't have to remember a thing. You just read it!

Eleanor Roosevelt:
I don't like *reading* a speech.

Louis Howe:
Did you think the Gettysburg Address was ad-libbed?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
I often think of something Woodrow Wilson said to me. It is only once in a generation the people can be lifted above material things. That is why conservative government is in the saddle for two thirds of the time.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
There is nothing so unattractive to a party as a defeated candidate.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Good morning to you, Mr. Howe. You're looking your usual dyspeptic self.

Louis Howe:
None of your amiable chatter, please.

Louis Howe:
I tried on a nurse's uniform. And while the skirt was rather flattering, I don't look well in white.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Caution, my friend, is the refuge of cowards.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Most of our blessings come in heavy disguises.

Sara Delano Roosevelt:
[upon hearing Eleanor was out giving a speech] You know my feelings about politics generally. It's a tawdry business for a man. And I believe shocking for a woman.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
I have no personal complaints. I'm lucky. I had rich parents.

Mr. Lassiter:
You must be aware of the fears that many Americans have when they contemplate the election of a Catholic to the presidency of the United States. The domination of the church over its members is well known, and Governor Smith is a devout Catholic.

Louis Howe:
Would it be more acceptable if he were a renegade Catholic?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
God has an infinite variety of tasks. I don't believe he's available as campaign manager.

Gov. Alfred E. Smith:
Frank, you handle that chair like a scooter.

Eleanor Roosevelt:
Franklin, may I say a word?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Certainly, if you're going to agree with me.

Eleanor Roosevelt:
Then I have nothing to say.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
That is hardly a sign of wifely devotion.