Frank Rizzo famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
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We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
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A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet....
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A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.
-- Frank Rizzo
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I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.
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I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.
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I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.
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I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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