" When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy--not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy. "

― Susan Quinn , Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times