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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

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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
Catchers
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Carter
Dog
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Catcher

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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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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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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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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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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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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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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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 have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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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 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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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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