"You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag."

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Source : "Ed Koch, mayor who became a symbol of NYC, dies at 88". www.usatoday.com. February 1, 2013.

Ed Koch

#Respect Quotes #Believe Quotes #Self Quotes

“I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are.”
“If we do not understand our sin, we will not understand the kind of savior we need.”
“I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.”
“People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.”
“I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.”
“Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.”
“You should see me without makeup.”
“My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.”

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