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
politics firsts bedtime
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
want
I want to come back as me.
want gone manhattan
I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone,
years two differences
I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.
suburbs
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
jail worry risk
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.
believe facts death-penalty
Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
people feel-good rewriting
Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.
killing bent persons
The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
teaching facts different
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.
believe errors long
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.
drinking want pay
If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
country home people
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.
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.