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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. "
Ed Koch
Vote
Me
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! "
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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 changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. "
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" I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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Thought
Nobody
" If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. "
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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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Me
" 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
" 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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Know
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" 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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" I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx. "
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Jewish
Simple
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" God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets. "
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" I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care. "
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Gay
Care
Me
" Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. "
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Nothing
Suburbs
Lived
" To learn something new every day is still exciting! "
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Learn
Day
Every Day
" 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
" 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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" The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. "
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" I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term. "
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Confident
" 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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City
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