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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.

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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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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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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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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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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
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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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We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
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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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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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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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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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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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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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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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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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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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