Quotes from Curtis Sliwa

I've been waiting 13 years for justice.

I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.

It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.

I have the ability to see results six months later and there's no better feeling. We impact on thousands of people in the world. And in New York, which is the roughest, when people appreciate what we're doing, it puts the Simoniz back on the apple.

I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman.

No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.

Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

For every good person that comes from Brooklyn or the Bronx, there are some bad people who bring their more criminal-intensive ways to small communities. We think we can be an antidote to that.