Ed Koch Quotes

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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.

  Ed Koch

  Issues, Vote, Psychiatrist

  "Outspoken Ed Koch’s best quotes" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. February 2, 2013.

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• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  Ed Koch

  Giving, Ulcers, Type

  Ed Koch (2011). “The Little Red Book of New York Wisdom”, p.95, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

  Ed Koch

  People, Feel Good, Rewriting

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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• I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.

  Ed Koch

  I Can

  "In 55 Years of Grammys, Only Three Latinos Performed Live" by Felix Sanchez, www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2013.

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• The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

  Ed Koch

  Art, History, Killing

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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.

  Ed Koch

  Thinking, Six Months, Said

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

  Ed Koch

  Love, Rights

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• Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

  Ed Koch

  Success, Teaching, Intellectual

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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.

  Ed Koch

  Respect, Believe, Self

  "Ed Koch, mayor who became a symbol of NYC, dies at 88". www.usatoday.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.

  Ed Koch

  Problem, Difficult, Difficult Problems

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• But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?

  Ed Koch

  Thinking, Enough, Think Of Me

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• ...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

  Ed Koch

  New York, Safe Haven, Thinking

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• To learn something new every day is still exciting!

  Ed Koch

  Something New, Exciting, Stills

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• [The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.

  Ed Koch

  Country, New York, Government

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• Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

  Ed Koch

  Fall, World, Groups

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• I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.

  Ed Koch

  Morning, New York, Thank You God

  "The Proust Questionnaire: Ed Koch". Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. February 2013.

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• I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

  Ed Koch

  Mayors

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• Many of the self-described "political refugees" who come here make stopovers in other countries on their way to the U.S., in places where they would be free to have as many children as they want. But they choose to continue on to the U.S. Why? Because it is more economically attractive.

  Ed Koch

  Country, Children, Self

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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• ...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to the back of the line? and shall those who have made a dramatic illegal entry, who would normally not be entitled to government assistance, or even entry itself, be put at the front?

  Ed Koch

  Country, Government, Immigration

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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• If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.

  Ed Koch

  Running, Sunday, Law

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• Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

  Ed Koch

  Motivational, Art, Pain

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• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  Ed Koch

  Politics, Firsts, Bedtime

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• Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own lands. But as a country, we cannot afford to have a total open-door policy without any restrictions on entry.

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  Country, Doors, Land

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• Unless they can immediately demonstrate a credible fear of persecution, why shouldn't these people be returned at once to the country from which they embarked - whether it be their home country or a stopover point - at the expense of the airline that brought them? All appeals would then be made from the country to which they have been returned.

  Ed Koch

  Country, Home, People

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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• Tree killing is arborcide.

  Ed Koch

  Tree, Killing

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