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
Where are the (condo residents) going to eat or shop? The (business) opportunity is there. What happens now is up to us.
He raised the standards of everybody in the business.
Not a problem. We feel like we can raise the money.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We have a starting point. We've come this far, we shouldn't scrap it.
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.
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.
The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together,
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.
Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.