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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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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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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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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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 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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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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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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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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Tone can be as important as text.
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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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[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'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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