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" 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
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Get
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" 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. "
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Vote
Me
Psychiatrist
" Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart. "
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Group
Fall
Power
" 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
" 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
" How'm I doing? "
Ed Koch
Doing
" Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. "
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Nothing
Suburbs
Lived
" I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever. "
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Forever
Being
Love
" 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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Edge
City
Me
" I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. "
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Back
New
City
" 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
" I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. "
Ed Koch
Social
Life
Discuss
" 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
" 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
" 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
Me
Thought
Vote
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Pot
Rainbow
Tell
" 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
" The Republicans are coming - make nice. "
Ed Koch
Nice
Republicans
Coming
" In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. "
Ed Koch
Primitive
Action
Strategist
" To learn something new every day is still exciting! "
Ed Koch
Learn
Day
Every Day
" If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. "
Ed Koch
Seek
Will
Put
" 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.' "
Ed Koch
God
Myself
Help
" The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. "
Ed Koch
Law
Life
New York
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Ed Koch
Nature
Understand
Government
" 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
" 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. "
Ed Koch
I Am
Today
Birthday
" 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