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

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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
Simple
Bronx
Jewish
Boys

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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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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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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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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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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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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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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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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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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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