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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
Life
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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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 love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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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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...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 want to come back as me.
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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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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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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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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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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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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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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 not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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