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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
Strategist
Foresight
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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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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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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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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.
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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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...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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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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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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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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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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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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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.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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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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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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