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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
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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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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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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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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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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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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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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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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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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 don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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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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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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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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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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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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