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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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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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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 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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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
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I want to come back as me.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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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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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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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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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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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 was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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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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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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