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.

Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness.

Communism which feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls shall not take root in the United States.

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.

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

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.

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

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

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.

In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

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

True friends don't send sms, they give a phone call.

What matters in relationship isn't how you see each other, but whether you see each other.

Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else.

To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

It started off really…claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they [Def Jam] were giving me the blueprint and I couldn’t get with that

I do not need a thousand souls, I only need one, which is my master's.

If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.