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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking 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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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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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 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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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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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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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 art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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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...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to the back of the line? and shall those who have made a dramatic illegal entry, who would normally not be entitled to government assistance, or even entry itself, be put at the front?
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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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