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• Listen, here is the law! I am the law! These boys go to work!
  • November 10, 1937, speech on city government to the Emory Methodist Episcopal Church in Jersey City
  • quoted in New York Times. 1937-11-11, page 1
  • to the director of the Board of Education's special service bureau, upon being told that the law required two young delinquents to go to school rather than work, as they would have preferred

Attributed

• As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never hear a real American talk like that.
  • speech to the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce, January 12, 1938