Ed Koch quotes - page 2

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor. (Ed Koch)
To learn something new every day is still exciting! View quote
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I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever. View quote
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Ed Koch)
I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale. View quote
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! View quote
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx. View quote
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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done. View quote
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against. View quote
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. (Ed Koch)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics. View quote
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns. View quote
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