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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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Ed Koch
Age: 88 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 12
Died: 2013
Died: February 1
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Edward Irving Ed Koch
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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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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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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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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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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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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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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