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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 have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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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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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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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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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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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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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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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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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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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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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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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