Curtis Sliwa Quotes

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs.

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.

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.

I figured I had seconds, maybe minutes to live.

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.

No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.

I've been waiting 13 years for justice.

I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.

I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

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.