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. – Al Smith
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. – Al Smith
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. – Al Smith
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. – Al Smith
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. – Al Smith