Al Smith
Al Smith
Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smithwas an American statesman who was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928. He was the foremost urban leader of the efficiency-oriented Progressive Movement and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. He was also linked to the notorious Tammany Hall machine that controlled New York City's politics; was a strong opponent of Prohibition, which he did not think could be...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 December 1873
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
We have a starting point. We've come this far, we shouldn't scrap it.
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.
Where are the (condo residents) going to eat or shop? The (business) opportunity is there. What happens now is up to us.
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.
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.
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.
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.