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
I still have the energy to do it. I was asked not to retire and told they might be able to put together the package I'd want. When I told my wife (Bonnie), she said, 'It's like we're divorced now. If you want a divorce?' So then I weighed my options.
If there is a single protected entity in this town that is immune from this paper, I don't know what it is.
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.
He raised the standards of everybody in the 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.
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.
Not a problem. We feel like we can raise the money.
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.
U.S. History, World History, Geography, Law, Economics and Psychology.
Where are the (condo residents) going to eat or shop? The (business) opportunity is there. What happens now is up to us.
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.
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.
I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.
If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.