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" 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
Make A Difference
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" 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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" I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did. "
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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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" 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
" 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
" 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
" The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. "
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You
Begin
Fireworks
" 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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Believe
Me
" 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
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" I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. "
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Twelve
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" You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you? "
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You
Want
Truth
" 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
" 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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God
Myself
Help
" It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized. "
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Than
More
Critic
" 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'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
" 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 action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. "
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Primitive
Action
Strategist
" When all are wrong, everyone is right. "
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Wrong
Right
Everyone
" 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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Canvas
Poetry
People
" 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. "
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Think
Stand Up
New York
" 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
" 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. "
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Rest
Relationship
New York
" 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
" I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. "
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Social
Life
Discuss
" 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
Government
" 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
" If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. "
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Stop
Pay
Drinking