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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.

Ed Koch

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Ed Koch
Age: 88 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 12
Died: 2013
Died: February 1
Film Critic
Former United States Representative
Judge
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Edward Irving Ed Koch
Edward I. Koch
Edward Irving Koch
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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.
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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
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The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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I want to come back as me.
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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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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.
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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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...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to the back of the line? and shall those who have made a dramatic illegal entry, who would normally not be entitled to government assistance, or even entry itself, be put at the front?
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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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.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.
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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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[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.
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I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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