Al Smith Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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