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" I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term. "
Ed Koch
Will
President
Confident
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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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Poetry
People
" 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
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Good
Tomorrow
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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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Law
Life
New York
" I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx. "
Ed Koch
Jewish
Simple
Boy
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Thought
Stand Up
Stand
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Gay
Care
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. "
Ed Koch
Doubt
Years
Said
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Army
Age
Happy
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Think
Stand Up
New York
" I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever. "
Ed Koch
Forever
Being
Love
" To learn something new every day is still exciting! "
Ed Koch
Learn
Day
Every Day
" 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
" You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights. "
Ed Koch
Rights
You
Them
" In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. "
Ed Koch
Primitive
Action
Strategist
" If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. "
Ed Koch
Seek
Will
Put
" There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate. "
Ed Koch
Rest
Relationship
New York
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Words
Tell
Truth
" 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. "
Ed Koch
People
Think
Writing
" 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
Psychiatrist
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Think
Pride
Say
" If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. "
Ed Koch
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. "
Ed Koch
Listen
City
Crazy
" I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. "
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Back
New
City
" How'm I doing? "
Ed Koch
Doing
" I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. "
Ed Koch
Social
Life
Discuss
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Uncomfortable
Know
City
" 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. "
Ed Koch
More
Risks
Worry
" The Republicans are coming - make nice. "
Ed Koch
Nice
Republicans
Coming
" Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! "
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Whenever
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