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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

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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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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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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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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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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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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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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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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 wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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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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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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