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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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I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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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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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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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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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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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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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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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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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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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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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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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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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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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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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