Curtis Sliwa Quotes (25 Quotes)

It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.

The federal government has assured me that whether April, May or June, he's going to go down for the count.

the boss is back. ... It means I have to watch my back.

I was wrong, but we were in a sprint for survival. We were just little people trying to get recognition for doing good work. In a sense it was like being Don Quixote.

I had a lot of anger after 13 years. That anger isn't there.

I've been waiting 13 years for justice.

I figured I had seconds, maybe minutes to live.

We were able to achieve a lot without any political or police support. It just makes a tough job ten times tougher to do, but it can still be done.

Some people have this stereotype in their mind that you have to be the son or daughter of Bruce Lee, physically fit, trim and able to fight off an army of uzi-toting, dope-sucking, psychopathic killing machines. That is not the prerequisite.

I can only warn you as a message ... if you choose to do nothing, if you choose to accept the status quo, things will ... get worse.

I may well be testifying by the end of the week or next Monday, and I look forward to be able to stare and glare at him and watch him squirm.

What we do best is we target the young men and women who are on the fringe. They could go either way. Maybe they have been in trouble before, but not serious trouble. ... We cherry-pick them and circumvent them away from the gang members and drug dealers ... (and encourage) them to hang out with us and become a Guardian Angel.

It will be the equivalent of having your priest or rabbi, your lawyer or your wife, testifying against you.

The anger that I had going into the first trial was stifled because I had a chance to tell my story. I was like an MX missile waiting to go off. Now I'm more like a can of deodorant.

The trials in the last month are the culmination of all the groundwork done in the 1990s. But you will find because of all the focus on terrorism, you will see less and less of that.

I had five holes in my body that were not there before the attack,

We hope to get a foot patrol out. For a very small city, Newburgh has some severe and intense problems.

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

We were friends and he knows what I went through with this shooting. I'm just happy I don't have to see him the next two days because there's no way I'd be able to sit across from him tomorrow.

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

We don't believe it stops citizens from notifying the community.

At any moment, at any time I could be attacked. So, I've got to change the course of my actions and I've got to make sure I'm alive, safe and sound so that I can go back into that witness box and give testimony starting February 13th.

Our red is of the red, white and blue of America. We stand on our liberty.

This is a good litmus test for us. It will tell us how much work we have to do, what sort of reception we're going to get from the community.

Remember, none of this would have come about if there weren't interest to have Guardian Angels from people.