Curtis Sliwa Quotations

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

Frankly, some of the things I did in the past, I deserved that line of questioning.

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

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.

Last week was the hardest week of radio I've ever had to do. It may be even worse now that the jury has rendered its decision.

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

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

My very dear friend who is a friend no more didn't even give me a heads up that he was going to testify for my enemy.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I've been waiting 13 years for justice.

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

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

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.

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.

I figured I had seconds, maybe minutes to live.

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

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

When the games are in effect, cars are violated; there have been break-ins into cars.

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

Some teachers have asked us -- not through the school board or anything -- to come in and help.

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.

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,

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.

It was the dumbest thing I ever did in my life.

For every good person that comes from Brooklyn or the Bronx, there are some bad people who bring their more criminal-intensive ways to small communities. We think we can be an antidote to that.

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

It's ironic . . . where we have no intention of setting up, (the chief) has extended an invitation to meet on Monday to find out more about us because he's curious.

It seemed like a lifetime, but I'm sure it was just milliseconds.

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

A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.

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

I?m lucky to still be breathing and not be room temperature.

I'm saying to myself, 'This has got to be a nightmare,'

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.

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

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

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.

get a bunch of horses, buy 20 acres there, and get to work.

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.

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.

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.

This has got to be a nightmare, ... I haven't woken up yet.