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.

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.

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

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

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

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

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.