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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

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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
Mayor
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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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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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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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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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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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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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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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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