- Joseph Guagliardo, national president of the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian-American Organizations
- Columbus Circle
- We’re not looking at demonstrations and we don’t want to hurt anybody. We are in a process of celebrating. This is our season. We celebrate Columbus’s voyage, as well as our own personal family voyages.
- Joseph Guagliardo
- In those days you conquered, pillaged, raped, and you moved back to your country. So, if Christopher Columbus was involved in that by finding a trade route, then he was involved. But that has nothing to do with what we did. We came looking for a better life.
- Joseph Guagliardo, national president of the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian-American Organizations