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" 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. "

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" We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God. "

Ed Koch

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Than

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" If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy. "

" When all are wrong, everyone is right. "

" 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. "

Ed Koch

Vote

Psychiatrist

" To learn something new every day is still exciting! "

" People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.' "

" I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride. "

" It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights. "

" I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done. "

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

Ed Koch

Self-Respect

Believe

" Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! "

" I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term. "

" My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me. "

" I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. "

" Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up. "

" The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. "

" You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you? "

" In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. "

" The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent. "

" I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx. "

" If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. "

" I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway. "

" God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets. "

" The Republicans are coming - make nice. "

" I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government. "

" I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done. "

" When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit. "

Ed Koch

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" It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized. "

Ed Koch

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" If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents. "

Ed Koch

Fly

" 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. "