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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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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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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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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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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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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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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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 love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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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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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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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of 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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Tone can be as important as text.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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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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