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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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Tone can be as important as text.
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There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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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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[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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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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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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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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
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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 never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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