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" I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. "
Ed Koch
Back
New
City
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" Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart. "
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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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" I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever. "
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" If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end. "
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Rainbow
Tell
" You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you? "
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Want
Truth
" 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. "
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Me
Like
Fly
" The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. "
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You
Begin
Fireworks
" 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
" 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
" You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights. "
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Rights
You
Them
" 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. "
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Thought
Stand Up
Stand
" 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. "
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Good
Tomorrow
Make A Difference
" I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. "
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Social
Life
Discuss
" Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against. "
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Good
He
Just
" 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. "
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Think
Stand Up
New York
" 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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More
Risks
Worry
" 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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Doubt
Years
Said
" If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. "
Ed Koch
Seek
Will
Put
" 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
Me
Now
" 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
" I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns. "
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Our
Should
Society
" 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. "
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Myself
Emotional
Campaign
" To learn something new every day is still exciting! "
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Learn
Day
Every Day
" The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. "
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Lose
Mouth
Diet
" 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. "
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Think
Pride
Say
" I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them. "
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Give
Get
Type
" 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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Happens
Protect
Rights
" In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. "
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Primitive
Action
Strategist
" The art of creation is older than the art of killing. "
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Than
Creation
Older