Quotes from Emanuel Celler

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.

The study of music was a family interest.

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.