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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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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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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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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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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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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 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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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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'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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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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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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I want to come back as me.
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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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