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.

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.

We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens.

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

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

The study of music was a family interest.

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.