Ed Koch Quotes

• You don’t have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

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• When all are wrong, everyone is right.

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• Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn’t let them get away with it. I’d take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.

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• You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it’s good for one’s self-respect to be a punching bag.

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• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, ‘I’m free at last.’

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• My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn’t make a difference to me.

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• It’s a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

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• If you don’t like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don’t like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don’t like me – 90 cents.

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• If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.

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• Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It’s sterile. It’s nothing. It’s wasting your life.

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• Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan’s Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

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• I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you’re a New Yorker.

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• Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he’s running against.

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• The Republicans are coming – make nice.

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• There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

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Ed Koch (35)

Birth:	12th December, 1924
Death:	1st February, 2013
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Ed Koch was an American lawyer, politician, political commentator, movie critic and reality television arbitrator. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and three terms as mayor of New York City, which he led from fiscal insolvency to economic boom, from 1978 to 1989.

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