Roy Cohn quotes

Roy Cohn quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset.”
-- Roy Cohn

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“I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.”
-- Roy Cohn

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“Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.”
-- Roy Cohn

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“I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.”
-- Roy Cohn

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“McCarthy generally, as an individual, was a liberal. He was, in economic philosophy and a lot of other things, extremely liberal.”
-- Roy Cohn

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“Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.”
“If youre going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If youre going to make a scary movie, scare people well.”
“If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.”
“I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.”
“We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.”

Source : Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.”
“There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena.”
“Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.”
“Leadership demands that we make tough choices.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.”

Source : "Emerging Ally: President of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. July 18, 2002.

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