People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die. Curtis Sliwa More Quotes by Curtis Sliwa More Quotes From Curtis Sliwa My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have. Curtis Sliwa percent my-wife wife 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. Curtis Sliwa gang-members angel men If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs. Curtis Sliwa gang empowering ifs I figured I had seconds, maybe minutes to live. Curtis Sliwa seconds minutes 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. Curtis Sliwa church giving men 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. Curtis Sliwa block angel thinking 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. Curtis Sliwa block night school No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me. Curtis Sliwa upset want thinking I've been waiting 13 years for justice. Curtis Sliwa waiting justice years I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events. Curtis Sliwa careful be-careful events I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot. Curtis Sliwa shots week air I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore. Curtis Sliwa invincible thinking A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world. Curtis Sliwa angels us apple world 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. Curtis Sliwa myself think know you 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. Curtis Sliwa feeling better people world January 2, Eric Adams is going to Florida like Eric Adams just won the Super Bowl ? how about staying here in New York City and helping to improve and not to move. Keep the people that are already here. Curtis Sliwa Because I experienced the benefits first-hand, I want more Gifted and Talented programs, not less, the Gifted and Talented Program should not be diluted, nor should it be discontinued. Curtis Sliwa Where are they doing outreach ? Who have they brought to a psychiatric facility ? Who have they brought to renew the prescriptions these men and women desperately need ? Curtis Sliwa This is signage that is evident almost everywhere across the State of New York, where the state has any kind of facility, park -- any kind of edifice, any kind of building, let this be the first of many changes to come for the incoming governor, lieutenant governor now, Kathy Hochul. Curtis Sliwa Knowing that many gang members go to schools, if for nothing more [than] to recruit and sell drugs, they're going to be able to resolve their disputes in the classrooms, in the lunchrooms, within the school buildings itself, because now they won't even fear… a pat-down or having to go put their backpack through a metal detector, this is not focusing on what the real problem is. Curtis Sliwa
