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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

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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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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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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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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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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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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 art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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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 want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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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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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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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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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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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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