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“Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.”
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“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.”
Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
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“One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.”
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“If it hurts me, it must hurt the other ones twice as much.”
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“The good thing about competing at the NCAA Division I Level is that identifying recruits is usually a pretty easy thing for us to do. Most of the time, the type of kids we recruit are identified early in their high school careers by many college programs.”
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“One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress,”
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“I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.”
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“But don’t let them talk you into anything you don’t feel comfortable with.†“They’re my friends.†“So what?†He shrugged. “If your friends walked off a cliff, would you do it too?†“Why would they walk off a cliff?†I asked in alarm. “Is someone having problems at home?”
