Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Curtis Sliwa

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American celebrity Curtis Sliwa.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Curtis Sliwa

Curtis Sliwa is an American activist, radio talk show host and founder and chief executive officer of the Guardian Angels, a nonprofit organization for unarmed crime prevention. Sliwa was the Republican nominee for the 2021 New York City mayoral election, which he lost to Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.

I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.
My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.
I have the ability to see results six months later and there's no better feeling. We impact on thousands of people in the world. And in New York, which is the roughest, when people appreciate what we're doing, it puts the Simoniz back on the apple.
I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore. — © Curtis Sliwa
I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.
No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.
Hey, I was lucky twice. I know it's three strikes and you're out. I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.
I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.
I've been waiting 13 years for justice.
A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.
Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman.
I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.
People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.
If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs.
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'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.
I figured I had seconds, maybe minutes to live.
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