Fiorello Quotes & Sayings

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

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

Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts. — Scott Westerfeld

It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea. — Mandy Moore

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water. — Jan Hammer

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him — Fiorello H. La Guardia

They believe all connections are temporary, so to cling to them makes no sense. When someone is gone, they're gone. Live for now; the present is all there is. You can't know what will happen next, so why worry? Consequences are natural and.inevitable. just do what you feel you must. — Chris Wooding

I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits that he does not know anything of these terms or what it is all about; but, Mr. Chairman, it is indeed a sad day for the people of this country when we must close the doors of the laboratories doing research work for the people of the United States. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat. — Fiorello LaGuardia

When I make a mistake, it's a beauty! — Fiorello H. La Guardia

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. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist. — Albert Camus

The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization, or to any other private association, let us have an official survey and let the American people know what is going on. A complete and honest and impartial survey would reveal incredible conditions ... — Fiorello H. La Guardia

Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined ... or one great figure ... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it. — Philip K. Dick

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors. — Charles Caleb Colton

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful. — Laozi

When you're hurrying around too quickly," he had said, "there's a part of the world you can't see. If, for example, you're taking a wrong direction in your life, it's only when you stop and look at things clearly that you can revise your direction and take a more proper course. Then message of Zen is that in order to find ourselves, we've got to learn to stop. — Pico Iyer

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. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process. — Hugh Hefner

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

The trouble that public unions could potentially cause for citizens was one reason that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, hero of Democrats and union organizers alike, opposed them for government workers. Republican Fiorello La Guardia, a great mayor of New York, opposed them, too. Unlike in the private sector, where unions were a needed counterweight to strong management, in the public sector unions had a big say in selecting management through the election process. As a result, they had a lot of power on both sides of the labor-management negotiating process. Roosevelt and La Guardia thus feared that, when government officials and unions battled over power, citizens could lose out. — Joel Klein

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? — Fiorello H. La Guardia

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets. — Fiorello LaGuardia

When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it. — Rajneesh

I was struck by how life moved so fast, almost cruelly, on Broadway. Fiorello! had fled the Broadhurst to make way for Sail Away, as if it had never existed. I studied each such metamorphosis with contradictory emotions of excitement and loss. With their new marquees and posters and glass-encased displays of fresh photos, the theaters promised a teeming bounty of surprises. But there remained not a shred of their previous tenants, who were gone forever and mourned by no one, perhaps, except me. When shows left the National, I knew they were going on to Broadway or at least to another town on the road. Where did the plays that left New York go? — Frank Rich

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

The mental sciences? A strange synonym for magic. — Lindsay Buroker

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden. — Barbara Olson

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. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

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. — Fiorello H. La Guardia