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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

#bag #believe #good #i #i do

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

— Edward Koch

#love #respect #rights #their #them

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

— Edward Koch

#dictate #dictated #first #i #i do

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. ↗

— Edward Koch

#best #best way #close #difficult #eat

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied. ↗

— Natalie du Toit

#disabled #i #myself #think

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

— Edward Koch

#give #i #them #type #ulcers

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end. ↗

— Edward Koch

#did #end #fortune #i #intend

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents. ↗

— Edward Koch

#albany #bucks #cents #costs #fly

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#early #early work #every #every time #hardest

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#changed #deal #even #feeling #great