Ed Koch Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Ed Koch

  Birthday, Years, Cities

  Twitter post from Dec 12, 2012

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• 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

  Weight, Mouths, Way

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• I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

  Ed Koch

  Believe, Gun, Should Have

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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.

  Ed Koch

  Country, New York, Hate

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• 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.

  Ed Koch

  Home, Army, Thinking

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• I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.

  Ed Koch

  Two, Differences, Years

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  Ed Koch

  Forever, Want, Mayors

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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.

  Ed Koch

  People, Four, Firsts

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

  Ed Koch

  Would Be, Mayors, Doubted

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• It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.

  Ed Koch

  World, Remakes

  "Mayor". Book by Ed Koch and William Rauch, 1984.

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

  Ed Koch

  Suburbs

  Ed Koch, Christy Heady (2007). “Buzz: How to Create It and Win with It”, p.75, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

  Ed Koch

  Social, Social Life

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• We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

  Ed Koch

  Worst Enemy, Modern Life, Cuban

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• In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

  Ed Koch

  Advice, Action, Primitive

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• However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.

  Ed Koch

  Exercise, Rights, Government

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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.

  Ed Koch

  Issues, People, Firsts

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• I want to come back as me.

  Ed Koch

  Want

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• I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

  Ed Koch

  New York, Cities, People

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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.

  Ed Koch

  Believe, Way, Grass

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• Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

  Ed Koch

  Manhattan

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

  Ed Koch

  Regret, Years, Play

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

  Ed Koch

  Drinking, Want, Pay

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• The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After all, their country's policy is forcing them to give birth to unwanted children.

  Ed Koch

  Country, Children, Law

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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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, Moments, Legislature

  "449 Stupid Things Democrats Have Said". Book by Ted Rueter, 2009.

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• I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. 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

  Believe, Rights, Care

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