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.
"Edward Irving" ""Ed"" "Koch" was an American lawyer, politician, Advocacy journalism/political commentator, film criticism/movie critic and reality television arbitral tribunal/arbitrator. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and three terms as mayor of New York City, which he led from fiscal insolvency to economic boom, from 1978 to 1989.
Koch was a lifelong Democrat who described himself as a "liberal with sanity". The author of an ambitious public housing renewal program in his later years as mayor, he began by cutting spending and taxes and cutting 7,000 from the city payroll after the expansive Lindsay and Beame administrations. As a congressman and after his terms as mayor he was a fervent supporter of the Israel/State of Israel. He crossed party lines to endorse Rudy Giuliani for mayor in 1993, Michael Bloomberg in 2001, and President George W. Bush in 2004.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous politicians! More Ed Koch on Wikipedia.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.
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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.
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.
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.
And I thought the people who voted against him were nuts.
I think he is in the great tradition of Pat Moynihan.
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