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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
Film Critic
Former United States Representative
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The Bronx
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Edward Irving Ed Koch
Edward I. Koch
Edward Irving Koch
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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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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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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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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.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
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