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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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Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.
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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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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
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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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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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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'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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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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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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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues he also could end up going to jail.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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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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I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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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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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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