An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.
--Fiorello LaGuardia
Do not seek to stop progress; do not seek to put the hand of politics on these scientific men who are doing a great work.
--Fiorello LaGuardia
I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.
--Fiorello LaGuardia
I think the reporter should get his facts straight before he distorts them.
--Fiorello LaGuardia
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me- I never retreat.
--Fiorello LaGuardia
Let's drive the bums out of town.
--Fiorello LaGuardia
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 LaGuardia
Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.
--Fiorello LaGuardia
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 LaGuardia
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 LaGuardia
Science knows no politics.
--Fiorello LaGuardia
The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.
--Fiorello LaGuardia
There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
--Fiorello LaGuardia
To the victor belongs the responsibility of good government.
--Fiorello LaGuardia
We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.
--Fiorello LaGuardia
When I make a mistake, it's a beaut!
--Fiorello LaGuardia
You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.
--Fiorello LaGuardia
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