"Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans."

-- Siegfried Sassoon

“If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.”

Source : "Outspoken Ed Koch’s best quotes" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. February 2, 2013.
“The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.”
“For me 'Thank You'. This word has a very deep meaning.”
“I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.”

Source : On refusing permission for a team from Cornell University to visit Michigan to play a game of American football. Quoted in D Wallechinsky The People's Almanac (1975).
“Once we secure our borders - and the federal government has not done a good job - then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States.”
“I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.”
“Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then there was media art, which made it possible to express things directly, without having to rely on the written word, which was manipulated by men.”

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