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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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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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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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I want to come back as me.
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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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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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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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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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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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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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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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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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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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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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