The study of music was a family interest.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

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

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.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

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.

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?