Emanuel Celler

Politician

28 Quotes

The study of music was a family interest.

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.

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.

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?

The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

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.

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

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