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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 don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
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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 art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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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 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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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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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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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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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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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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