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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. "

Ed Koch

Think

Carry

Energy

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" If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it. "

" Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To learn something new every day is still exciting! "

" If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end. "

" I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term. "

" You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you? "

" If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. "

" 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. "

" I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them. "

" I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did. "

" When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me. "

Ed Koch

Thought

Vote

" Tone can be as important as text. "

" 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. "

" Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. "

" You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag. "

Ed Koch

Self-Respect

Believe

" 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. "

" God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets. "

" 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. "

Ed Koch

Job

Now

" I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. "

" Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! "

" 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. "

" I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx. "