Fiorello La Guardia 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

You want to save more fish? Eat more broccoli. — Barton Seaver

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

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

Did you just hit the childproof locks on me? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

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

freedom exists not in finding answers, but in the dissolution of all questions. — U.G. Krishnamurti

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets. — Wilma Rudolph

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister. — Neil Kinnock

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

It's all about leading by example. Am I going to be perfect? Absolutely not. — Mo Williams

Research has also revealed that women who have developed PTSD in relation to early childhood sexual abuse often develop borderline personality disorder. Some severe cases will result in the development of dissociative identity disorder or depersonalization disorder. Patients who have been exposed to protracted and repeated sexual abuse may also develop schizophrenia simultaneously with PTSD. — John M. Duffey

If you took me to Coachella for our first date, it would probably be a done deal. It would be a sure thing. — Eva Mendes

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

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

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year. — Ishmael Reed

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

Zealots are rarely ever weakened by disbelievers; in fact, they are encouraged by them. — Paul Midler

When you're in transition, you will need to find a different kind of security. It's not one of labels, guarantees or bank balances. It's guidance - the directions of your own inner voice. Moment by moment you know what to do. You are safer than ever before. — Tama J. Kieves