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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. "
Ed Koch
My Life
Done
Proud
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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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" When all are wrong, everyone is right. "
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" 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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" 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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People
" I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did. "
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Would
Never
" 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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City
Me
" 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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People
Thought
Nobody
" In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound. "
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Life
Better
Clean
" 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
" It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized. "
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Than
More
Critic
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! "
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Whenever
Get
Leave
" I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns. "
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Our
Should
Society
" 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
" To learn something new every day is still exciting! "
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Learn
Day
Every Day
" I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. "
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Back
New
City
" 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
" How'm I doing? "
Ed Koch
Doing
" I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever. "
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Forever
Being
Love
" If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. "
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Stop
Pay
Drinking
" 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
" 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
" You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights. "
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Rights
You
Them
" 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'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them. "
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Give
Get
Type
" I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. "
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Social
Life
Discuss
" 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
" The Republicans are coming - make nice. "
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Nice
Republicans
Coming