This is a celebration not just of passage of act but everything Social Security has done for past 70 years, ... Social Security is one of the hallmark programs of the New Deal era and I think it's important to remind people of the great structural reforms that took place during the Roosevelt era.

It's widely accepted the U.N. has to undergo a certain amount of reform. I think the future of the U.N. is bright. It's critical.

The first President Bush was very effective with the U.N..

There was a sense among Roosevelt's generation the League of Nations had failed.

Roosevelt constructed the house we have been living in since World War II, ... FDR was trying to provide vision and leadership after the war. He wanted a new world order.

One of the critical things he saw was not returning to isolationism. That, he said, would lead to disaster. Roosevelt was very much committed that the U.S. play a proper role in the U.N.

Reckoning with Roosevelt, 1944-55.