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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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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
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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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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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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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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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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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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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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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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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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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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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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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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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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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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
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