Ed Koch
Ed Koch
Edward Irving "Ed" Kochwas 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 from 1978 to 1990...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 December 1924
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
success graduation education
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.
love rights
You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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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.
respect believe self
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
thinking six-months said
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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
blacks high limit rise
there was no limit to how high blacks could rise in my administration.
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He came to see me a few weeks ago, and I said, 'You're not doing it exactly the way I did it,' ... 'You're talking as though it was the four other boroughs against Manhattan.' ... I said 'There are plenty of middle-class people living in Manhattan.' He changed the tone then, so that it became more of a message about the middle class.
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I am not for public executions, though I support the death penalty. One, it's an appropriate punishment in horrific cases, and two, it's a deterrent. There are studies that say that for every person executed, eight innocent people who might otherwise have been murdered were not.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse
against people voted
and I thought the people who voted against him were nuts.
country children self
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.