Al Smith Quotations

We have a starting point. We've come this far, we shouldn't scrap it.

I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together,

I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right of every parent to choose whether his child shall be educated in the public school or in a religious school supported by those of his own faith.

Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.

The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us.

Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

I think we'll be OK. We'll be respectable. I'm hoping we can make the tournament. That hasn't been done around here in a while, since back in the early '90s I believe.

Jim and I both believe ... that if there was a reasonable price opportunity to make this buy, that people in Lexington with money would be standing in line to take part.

I still have the energy to do it. I was asked not to retire and told they might be able to put together the package I'd want. When I told my wife (Bonnie), she said, 'It's like we're divorced now. If you want a divorce?' So then I weighed my options.

U.S. History, World History, Geography, Law, Economics and Psychology.

Where are the (condo residents) going to eat or shop? The (business) opportunity is there. What happens now is up to us.

You look at your own individual situation and visualize yourself being trapped in that house with no power and no water, and in the winter time, with no heat.

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.

The music industry is constantly evolving to find new ways to reach our customer, the music fan. The number of possibilities for this is very exciting, and we look forward to working with Universal to discover the best opportunities for consumers and our businesses.

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.

Not a problem. We feel like we can raise the money.

If there is a single protected entity in this town that is immune from this paper, I don't know what it is.

He raised the standards of everybody in the business.