Chris Gardner Quotes
No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.
Gardner, Chris. The Pursuit of Happyness. Amistad, 2006, p. 46.
The younger Kennedy, as Counsel to a Senate Investigating Committee, had made it his mission to show the infiltration and connection of Hoffa and his Teamsters' Union and organized crime. Despite his relentless questioning and investigation, Robert Kennedy was unable to prove and criminal connections and Hoffa denied that the ever existed. But with RFK as Attorney General, many thought Hoffa would be relentlessly persecuted and that he would be worried. But he never appeared so, and the Attorney General was not able to pin anything on Hoffa.
The United States is almost unique among nations in their respect. While there are Federal law enforcement officers, the number is very small. For example, the entire Federal Bureau of Investigation complement of agents is outnumbered by one of the three shifts of the New York City Police Department. The vast majority of the police officers in America are not even at the State level; it is at the local level.
Christopher Paul Gardner is an American businessman and motivational speaker. During the early 1980s, Gardner struggled with homelessness while raising a toddler son. He became a stock broker and eventually founded his own brokerage firm Gardner Rich & Co in 1987. In 2006, Gardner sold his minority stake in the firm and published a memoir. That book was made into the motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness starring Will Smith.
