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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.

Ed Koch

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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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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.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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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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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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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 have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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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 don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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