Emanuel Celler

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.

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.