Empire City (1985)

Ed Koch: Self

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• Ed Koch : We walk faster, we talk faster, we think faster. The quintessential New Yorker is someone who has street smarts, who can't be conned, who sees the humor in the most difficult of situations, and who knows that, somehow or other, with all of the problems, we're not only going to overcome, but we're lucky to be living in this city.

• Ed Koch : We have over 150 different races and religions and ethnic groups and, somehow or other, we're all living together. What we have done is we have retained our individuality, our cultural traditions, our special feeling about things if we're Jewish, as I am, or Italian, or Irish, or Black, or Hispanic, or Ukrainian, and nevertheless maintaining our own traditions. We're still all, somehow or other, New Yorkers, and we've made our peace with one another.