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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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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.
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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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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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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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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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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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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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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'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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