For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.

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

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.

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.

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.

I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening.

If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.