Fiorello H. La Guardia famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Tired #Evil #Easy
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

#Rivers #San Francisco #Hudson River
I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.
-- Fiorello H. La Guardia

#Wine #Jelly #Lord
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

#Long #Politics #Taxes
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
-- Fiorello H. La Guardia

#Bridges #Differences #Retreat
When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!
-- Fiorello H. La Guardia

#Business #Mistake
There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
-- Fiorello H. La Guardia

#Way #Cleaning #Republican
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

#War #Organization #People
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

#Country #War #Drug
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

#Country #Humble #Agriculture
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

#Country #Science #Research
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

#Country #Sorry #Party

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