Ed Koch Quotes

The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

Ed Koch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 12, 1924 - February 1, 2013

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Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.

Joe Slovo

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When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.

Joan Severance

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I've always been interested in listening to people's stories.

Jens Lekman

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Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

John Dean

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There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

Melissa Etheridge

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And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

Robert Grosseteste

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But I am an optimist about Britain; and the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome.

Tony Blair

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I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.

Jayson Williams

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The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Douglas MacArthur

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Everyone wants to start a business in their garage - they think it's sexy - but when you actually sit as a 30-year-old in a garage, it's not so sexy.

Chieh Huang

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I learned how important it is to have a home that's in order - that's peaceful.

Chris Bosh

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In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.

Brian Chesky

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