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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

Ed Koch

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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
Bronx
Jewish
Boys
Simple

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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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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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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 have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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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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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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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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[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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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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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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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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