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Author:R.M. Engelhardt

“There is still so much more to say ...”

Life Writing Quotes R M Engelhardt Albany

Book:Versus : Poems By R.M. Engelhardt 2009

Source: Versus : Poems By R.M. Engelhardt 2009

“Laws are insufficient to endow a nation with righteousness.”

Law Righteousness Vice President Albany 1923

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.”

Thinking Way Cities Gone New York Directors Authority Capacity Budgets Appropriate Albany

Author:Joe Lhota

“We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.”

People Self Government Desire Nations Interest Pay Attention Conflict Taxes Highest Angry Property Corruption Income Income Tax Incompetent Conflict Of Interest Albany Property Taxes

Author:Carl Paladino

“The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws - I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen.”

“I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.”

People Knowing Taught Grew Grew Up Advantage Negative Presses Grandmother Rough Influential Mayors Albany

Author:Kirsten Gillibrand

“Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.”

Running Worst Position Mines Terrible Towns Governors Small Town American Politics No Friends Small Town Life Albany

Author:Ed Koch

“My thoughts were to become a dentist when I first went to Albany State. I didn't know where I would end up, but I knew I'd be happy, and I knew I would have a nice life. That was always my goal, to have a nice, happy life. That's, to me, being rich.”

Knows Firsts Ends States Goal Rich Nice Happy Life My Thoughts Dentist Being Rich Nice Life Albany

Author:Steve Guttenberg

“Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.”

Ends Father Office Ireland Desks Basements Albany

Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan

“Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.”

“My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.”

Firsts Jobs Lost New York Taste Ice Hated Friendly Uniforms Cream Colleagues Ice Cream Albany

Author:Gregory Maguire

“My father was a local radio celebrity in the Albany area while I was growing up. That was his dream when he was a boy. I learned from him that some dreams are attainable and the penalty for inaction is regret.”

Dream Father Boys Growing Up Growing Regret Areas Radio Locals Penalties Inaction Albany

Author:Jonathan Weeks

“At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.”

Grew Grew Up Rivers Tiny Stations Beginners Indiana Kentucky Albany Louisville

Author:Bob Edwards

“We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of attitudes. The hard part was (that) all four of the first feature films we made take place in modern-day Albany, Georgia. We know that not all of our films going to be (set in) modern-day Albany, Georgia.”

Knows Firsts Made Hard Film Church Attitude Four Wonderful Modern Members Atmosphere Features Wonderful Things Georgia Baptists Modern Day Church Members Albany

Author:Alex Kendrick

“So, the next film won't necessarily be modern-day Albany, Georgia but we're grateful for the films we've made (with Sherwood). The church is an amazing church. We're gonna grow as filmmakers and invest in the next generation of upcoming filmmakers and try to duplicate what we're doing.”

Trying Made Film Next Grows Church Generations Modern Grateful Filmmaker Next Generation Georgia Modern Day Duplicate Albany

Author:Alex Kendrick

“I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't know whether you recall how Albany got started. There were two little guys who went up there first. One was Cordell Hull who was then in his teens - not Cordell Hull - Cordell Reagan, who came out of the Nashville movement, and Charles Sherrod, who came out of the Richmond, Virginia, movement.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Littles Two Guy Honest Movement Being Honest Teens Recalls Initials Virginia Nashville Hull Albany Richmond

Author:Ella Baker

“I don't see myself as some television star, I see myself as a girl from Albany.”

Girl Stars Television Albany

Author:Megyn Kelly

“A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who can do an active job in their community like being a mayor, but who cannot go to Washington or Albany or wherever the capital of the state is. There are others who can, can leave home, whose children are older and so forth. I think it all is a personal decision.”

Thinking Firsts Children States Home Jobs Young Can Do Community Decision Duty Active Mayors Albany Personal Decisions

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.”

Ifs Politics President Cost Like Me Cents Governors Bucks Don't Like Me Albany Picket Fences You Don't Like Me If You Don't Like Me

Author:Ed Koch

“It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail’s crawl home from Albany when snow hit.“It’s New York, people. It’s winter. We get snow. If you aren’t prepared to deal with it, move to Miami.”

People Ifs Said Home Moving Deals New York Dad Prepared Winter Snow Miami Snail Albany

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”

Feels Speak Ought Lear Albany Cordelia

Author:William Shakespeare

“For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions.”

“New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.”

Sometimes States Government New York Taxes Models Lows Performances Down And Corruption Boss One Time Backwards Disgrace Upside Down State Government Albany New York State High Taxes Tweed

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.”

People Ifs Citizens Battle Metaphor Isolation Silver Engagement Bullets Alienation Albany Dodging Bullets Silver Bullets

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.”

Knows Needs Situation Changed Currents Disputes Nobody Knows Current Situation Albany

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?”

People Knows Done Know How Plans Angry Get It Done Albany

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators”

Acting Cases Integrity Sitting Corruption Aggressive Dissatisfaction Legislators Articulating Albany

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“My steamboat voyage to Albany and back, has turned out rather more favorable than I had calculated. The distance from New York to Albany is one hundred and fifty miles; I ran it up in thirty-two hours, and down in thirty. I had a light breeze against me the whole way, both going and coming, and the voyage has been performed wholly by, the power of the steam engine. I overtook many sloops and schooners beating to windward and parted with them as if they had been at anchor. The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Two Whole Light Hours New York Hundred Distance Miles Boat Ran Thirty Fifty Engines Breeze Anchors Voyages Steam Steam Engines Albany Steamboats

Author:Robert Fulton

“I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.”

Bigs Turns Found White Needed Red Bells Mixtures Rice Tomatoes Sausage Peppers Savannah Albany

Author:Paula Deen

“Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.”

Wisdom Seems Goodness Filth Lear Savour Albany

Author:William Shakespeare

“I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel”

Shows Cooking Albany Cooking Shows

Author:Dom DeLuise

“Nice little town, Albany. They've got a State Capitol there, you know.”

Knows Littles States Nice Towns Capitol Little Towns Albany

Author:Ralph Bellamy

“You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.”

Faces Wind Blow Dust Your Face Rude Lear Albany

Author:William Shakespeare

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