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Quotes from Fiorello H. La Guardia

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
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
You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.
~ 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
When I make a mistake it's a beaut!
~ Fiorello H. La Guardia
Ticker tape ain't spaghetti.
~ Fiorello H. La Guardia
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
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
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
When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!
~ Fiorello H. La Guardia
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
There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
~ Fiorello H. La Guardia