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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
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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.
Ed Koch
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
Ed Koch
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Ed Koch
You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
Ed Koch
If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
Ed Koch
I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
Ed Koch
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.
Ed Koch
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.
Ed Koch
I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
Ed Koch
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.
Ed Koch
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.
Ed Koch
I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
Ed Koch
We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
Ed Koch
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
Ed Koch
[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.
Ed Koch
It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
Ed Koch
To learn something new every day is still exciting!
Ed Koch
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
Ed Koch
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.
Ed Koch
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.
Ed Koch