AL SMITH

You can’t beat this prosperity thing.

Calling the New York State Legislature “a circus” is inappropriate. Circus animals are very intelligent.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

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

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

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

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.

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.

The best way to kill anything un-American is to drag it out into the open; because anything un-American cannot live in the sunlight.

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

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

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

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.

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

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I do not want any Catholic in the United States of America to vote for me on the 6th of November because I am a Catholic.

The best way to kill anything un-American is to drag it out into the open; because anything un-American cannot live in the sunlight.

I never heard of these bulls and encyclicals and books.

Devote that intelligent mind of yours to the problems of the state

Agitating the community and increasingly forcing itself upon our attention is the narcotic drug evil. I am convinced that part of the agitation on this subject is due to the sensationalism of certain types of newspapers and magazines. Lurid, sensational articles, intended to inflame the imagination of young people and to make the whole subject mysteriously and morbidly attractive, have led to the prevalence of a belief that the use of narcotic drugs is much more general than it really is.

Calling the New York State Legislature “a circus” is inappropriate. Circus animals are very intelligent.

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.

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.

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 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.

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

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.

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.