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" To learn something new every day is still exciting! "
Ed Koch
Learn
Day
Every Day
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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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You
Begin
Fireworks
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Happens
Protect
Rights
" We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God. "
Ed Koch
Hands
Than
Say
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Lose
Mouth
Diet
" 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
" 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 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. "
Ed Koch
Me
Like
Fly
" I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. "
Ed Koch
Social
Life
Discuss
" The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are. "
Ed Koch
You
Wherever
Will
" 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'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
" 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
" In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. "
Ed Koch
Primitive
Action
Strategist
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Office
People
Done
" In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound. "
Ed Koch
Life
Better
Clean
" I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. "
Ed Koch
First
Know
Windows
" The Republicans are coming - make nice. "
Ed Koch
Nice
Republicans
Coming
" You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you? "
Ed Koch
You
Want
Truth
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Myself
Emotional
Campaign
" Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. "
Ed Koch
Nothing
Suburbs
Lived
" 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
" 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. "
Ed Koch
People
Thought
Nobody
" You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights. "
Ed Koch
Rights
You
Them
" 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
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Courage
Say
Me
" It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized. "
Ed Koch
Than
More
Critic
" The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. "
Ed Koch
Together
Friend
Growing Old