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Ed Koch Quotes
«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.»
Author: Ed Koch
«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.»
Author: Ed Koch
«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.»
Author: Ed Koch
«Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.»
Author: Ed Koch
«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.»
Author: Ed Koch
«The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse»
Author: Ed Koch
«I wouldn't take him lightly at all, ... Without him, the Republicans have no one. With him, they have someone who has a record of achievement.»
Author: Ed Koch
«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.»
Author: Ed Koch
«and I thought the people who voted against him were nuts.»
Author: Ed Koch
«I think he is in the great tradition of Pat Moynihan.»
Author: Ed Koch