The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.
If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.
Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.
The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president.
Small issues are really just large ones that haven't been accorded the requisite attention.
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