Sunday, September 11, 2005
Retort of the Day
In 1933 when Senator Norris asked President-elect Franklin Roosevelt how he would explain the nature of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the federal corporation that electrified a great swath of the South, Roosevelt replied—
I’ll tell them it’s neither fish nor fowl. But whatever it is, it will taste awfully good to the people of the Tennessee Valley.
—as quoted on the TVA website and by Robin Toner in "Thumbing Nervously Through the Conservative Rulebook"
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