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" God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets. "
Ed Koch
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" 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. "
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Rights
" If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many. "
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" Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. "
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" The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. "
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Law
Life
New York
" How'm I doing? "
Ed Koch
Doing
" There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate. "
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Rest
Relationship
New York
" I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. "
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Born
Twelve
Lot
" Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage. "
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Job
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Now
" In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound. "
Ed Koch
Life
Better
Clean
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Think
Pride
Say
" There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics. "
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Words
Tell
Truth
" The Republicans are coming - make nice. "
Ed Koch
Nice
Republicans
Coming
" 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. "
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Nature
Understand
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. "
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Office
People
Done
" If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. "
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Stop
Pay
Drinking
" There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges. "
Ed Koch
Think
Carry
Energy
" I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. "
Ed Koch
Social
Life
Discuss
" I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary. "
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People
Think
Writing
" I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever. "
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Forever
Being
Love
" I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did. "
Ed Koch
Did
Would
Never
" 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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Self-Respect
Believe
Me
" 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. "
Ed Koch
More
Risks
Worry
" I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters. "
Ed Koch
Myself
Emotional
Campaign
" I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them. "
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Give
Get
Type
" The art of creation is older than the art of killing. "
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Than
Creation
Older
" You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights. "
Ed Koch
Rights
You
Them
" If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. "
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Seek
Will
Put
" To learn something new every day is still exciting! "
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Learn
Day
Every Day
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Good
Tomorrow
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" I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. "
Ed Koch
First
Know
Windows