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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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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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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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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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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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 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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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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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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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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