Fiorello Quotes

#1. Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.

Kate Baldwin

#2. Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

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#3. When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

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#4. You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

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#5. It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

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#6. Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

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#7. There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

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#8. To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.

Pete Seeger

#9. Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

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#10. He licked his lips. 'Well, if you want my opinion-'
'I don't, ' She said. 'I have my own.

Toni Morrison

#11. It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

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#12. My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

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#13. You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

Carson McCullers

#14. The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

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#15. We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

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#16. Materialism takes root in early childhood, and is driven mainly by low self-esteem.

Richard Wiseman

#17. God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

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#18. Food is the main engine that drives connectedness, relationship in Chinese society.

Nicole Mones

#19. Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?

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#20. I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

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#21. The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

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#22. All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others, or than they themselves after they have lost their freedom.

John Stuart Mill

#23. An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

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