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I want to come back as me.

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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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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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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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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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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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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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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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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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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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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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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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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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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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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