Ed Koch Quotes
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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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It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.
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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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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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How'm I doing?
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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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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The Republicans are coming - make nice.
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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.
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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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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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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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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.