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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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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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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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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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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 don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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Tone can be as important as text.
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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'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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