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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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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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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 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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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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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 key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
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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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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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I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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