If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.
Edward Koch
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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.
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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.
If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
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.
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.
The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
They have given me the imprimatur of a serious writer, which I knew I was but could not claim publicly until they gave it to me.
Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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