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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
Ed Koch
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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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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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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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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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 don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to the back of the line? and shall those who have made a dramatic illegal entry, who would normally not be entitled to government assistance, or even entry itself, be put at the front?
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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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The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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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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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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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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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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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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