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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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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 was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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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 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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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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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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Tone can be as important as text.
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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I want to come back as me.
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There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
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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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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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