We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.

- Rexford Tugwell

The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all of us owed…

- Rexford Tugwell

To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.

- Rexford Tugwell