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

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

- Al Smith

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

- 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

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

- 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

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

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

- Al Smith

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