Brooklyn Quote by Emanuel Celler

I parted ways with the Congress, a party that I served for so many years, because its leadership constantly humiliated me by ignoring my…

— Satpal Maharaj

I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral…

— Laura Moser

I got an excellent opportunity to learn and understand democratic values early on. And it shook me. This played a significant role in making…

— Narendra Modi

The astonishing thing for me is that I had a career before politics and I never thought about my colour.

— Sam Gyimah

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.

— Charlie Parker

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was…

— Norman Rockwell

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

— Barbra Streisand

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression…

— Herbert Hoover

I was able to excite and engage people who previously hadn't been involved in politics, and part of the reason that I was able…

— Barack Obama

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

— John Breaux

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have…

— Andrew Young