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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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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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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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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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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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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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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 don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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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 believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
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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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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 was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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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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