Emanuel Celler Quotes

"Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Humor, Love, Inspiration, Adventure, Intuition, Philosophy, Wit)

"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."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Life, Challenge, Magic, Man, Public, Risk)

"The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Men, Republican, Terror)

"The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: People, Party, Will)

"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Europe, Now)

"The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Being, Depression)

"The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Population, Russia, states, United)

"People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: People, Hurt)

"The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Growth, Population, states, United)

"My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?"
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Father, Wife, Successful, Being, Law, Now, Practice, Questions, School, Wine)

"The study of music was a family interest."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Family, Music, Interest, Study)

"We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Communism, Freedom)

"We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Character, Assassination, Fight, Party, Republican)

"The power to investigate is a great public trust."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Power, Trust, Public, Public trust)

"Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Will)

"In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Food, Music, Books, Neighbors)

"Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Population)

"Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Men, Aggression, Communism, Hatred, Imprisonment, states, United)

"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."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Ambition)

"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."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Climate, Congress, Emotion)

"I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration."
- Emanuel Celler

"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."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Power, Growth, Civil rights)

"It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Purpose, Committee, Majority)

"My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: states, United)

"My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Freedom, Germany, states, United)

"On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Equality, Laws, Practice, Theories)

"In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color."
- Emanuel Celler
(Related: Government, Revolution, March)