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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.

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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
Primitive
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Action
Strategist
Foresight

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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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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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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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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect 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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I want to come back as me.
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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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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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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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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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