Ed Koch Quotes - Page 2

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• The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

  Ed Koch

  Success, Graduation, Education

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• Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.

  Ed Koch

  Running, No Friends, Towns

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• Tree killing is arborcide.

  Ed Koch

  Tree, Killing

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• Tone can be as important as text.

  Ed Koch

  Important, Tone

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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.

  Ed Koch

  President, Politics, Bucks

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• If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

  Ed Koch

  Jail, Violence, Ifs

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• I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

  Ed Koch

  Commitment, President, States

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• The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.

  Ed Koch

  Friendly, Supportive, Media Training

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• In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

  Ed Koch

  Society, Cleaning, Neighborhood

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• Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once they've seen New York! This rural American thing - I'm telling you, it's a joke.

  Ed Koch

  New York, People, Wish

  Ed Koch, Christy Heady (2007). “Buzz: How to Create It and Win with It”, p.75, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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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.

  Ed Koch

  Jail, Worry, Risk

  "I'm Right, You're Wrong: Ed Koch Vs. Al D'Amato". nymag.com.

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• There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

  Ed Koch

  Enemy, Trying, Want

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• The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.

  Ed Koch

  Keys, Forgiving, Never Forget

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• I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.

  Ed Koch

  War, Views, President

  "Why I'm voting for Bush". www.jewishworldreview.com. December 24, 2003.

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• The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

  Ed Koch

  Killing, Bent, Persons

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• I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.

  Ed Koch

  Gone, Manhattan, Want

  "Koch’s numerous health problems likely contributed to congestive heart failure", www.foxnews.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

  Ed Koch

  New York, Aqua, Cities

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• Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.

  Ed Koch

  Believe, Errors, Long

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

  Ed Koch

  Fun, Critics

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• When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

  Ed Koch

  Cities, Proud, Detroit

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• There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

  Ed Koch

  Thinking, Way, Causes

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• No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

  Ed Koch

  Mean, Want, Homosexual

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• I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.

  Ed Koch

  Years, Done, Proud

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• Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

  Ed Koch

  Believe, Facts, Helping

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• Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

  Ed Koch

  Dog, Catchers, Carter

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