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" I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. "
Ed Koch
Born
Twelve
Lot
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. "
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Begin
Fireworks
" Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against. "
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Good
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Just
" I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. "
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First
Know
Windows
" 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
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" The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are. "
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Wherever
Will
" 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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Uncomfortable
Know
City
" 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
" I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term. "
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Will
President
Confident
" I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. "
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Back
New
City
" Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world. "
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Today
Birthday
" 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. "
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Think
Carry
Energy
" Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! "
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Whenever
Get
Leave
" 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
" 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. "
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You
Think
Live
" 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
" You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you? "
Ed Koch
You
Want
Truth
" 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. "
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My Life
Done
Proud
" We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God. "
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Hands
Than
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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did. "
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Did
Would
Never
" 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. "
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Listen
City
Crazy
" The Republicans are coming - make nice. "
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Nice
Republicans
Coming
" I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. "
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Social
Life
Discuss
" I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them. "
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Give
Get
Type