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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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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues he also could end up going to jail.
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I want to come back as me.
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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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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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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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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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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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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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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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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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...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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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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