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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Ed Koch

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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
Brainstorming
Killing
Older
Creation
History
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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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The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.
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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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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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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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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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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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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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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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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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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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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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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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