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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.

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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
Manhattan
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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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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[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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I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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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 was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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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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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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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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