 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. |
| My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States. |
| 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. |
| The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics. |
| The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The power to investigate is a great public trust. |
| 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. |
| I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration. |
| The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself. |
| The study of music was a family interest. |
| Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness. |
