Helena Mahoney: Franklin, I can't help you out of a hole if I climb in with you.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Don't talk to me as if I were a child.
Eleanor Roosevelt: How am I supposed to talk to you?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Like I was.
Eleanor Roosevelt: I don't know how to, any more.
Tom Loyless: You're gonna do great things, Franklin. This place has identity now, a purpose.
Louis Howe: Why are you a Democrat?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Democratic Party is the party of the people, and I'm a man of the people.
Louis Howe: You're a Roosevelt. Since when does a Roosevelt know about people?