“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.”

About Emanuel Celler

Politician • American

Emanuel Celler was an influential American politician who served as a Democratic U.S. Representative from New York for nearly half a century, from 1923 to 1973. A native of Brooklyn, he became the dean of the House of...