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" 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. "
Ed Koch
You
Think
Live
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" Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! "
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" If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. "
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" If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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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" When all are wrong, everyone is right. "
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" Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific! "
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" Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. "
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" No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that. "
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Say
Me
" The art of creation is older than the art of killing. "
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Than
Creation
Older
" I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them. "
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Get
Type
" I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did. "
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Would
Never
" 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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Pride
Say
" Tone can be as important as text. "
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Text
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" 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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People
Done
" I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did. "
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Happy
" 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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Fall
Power
" 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. "
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" I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them. "
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" 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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