Kenneth Branagh credited as playing...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [on first arriving at Warm Springs] This place should be condemned!
- Tom Loyless: We have seen better times. But then, I imagine, so have you.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: You never pitied me, Tom. Thank you for that.
- Tom Loyless: On the contrary; I envy you.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [FDR is in the swimming pool] But I don't know how to stand.
- Aunt Sally: Not yet, you don't.
- Tom Loyless: But you will.
- Eleanor Roosevelt: [Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor are headed toward the pool in Warm Springs] Tell me again why we came here?
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [somewhat impatiently] For the waters. Are you coming?
- Louis Howe: [FDR is supposed to make a speech] What's the matter?
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: What if I fall?
- Louis Howe: If you fall, you just get up again.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: If I fall in front of thousands of people, I'll lose everything - except their pity. They'll never see past my legs.
- Eleanor Roosevelt: My darling, they'll never see past your legs - until you do.
- Helena Mahoney: I feel like I've been brought here under false pretenses.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Join the club.
- 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?
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [Fred Botts' mother will not led him ride a bicycle because she believes that it gave him polio] Did she sell it?
- Fred Botts: No; she took it out back and shot it.
- [Roosevelt roars with laughter]
- Tom Loyless: Oh, Peabody'll sell, all right.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: What makes you think he will?
- Tom Loyless: Have you taken a look at this place?
- 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.