Fiorello H. La Guardia Quotes

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

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

When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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