He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.
Source: On NYC Mayor Edward Koch, Act III NY Daily News, 1 Sep 1985.
-- Pete Hamill, (Jun 24 1935-____), US journalist, author; He was a journalist for the New York Post; wrote The Gift, 1973 and Flesh and Blood.