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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

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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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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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I want to come back as me.
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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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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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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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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
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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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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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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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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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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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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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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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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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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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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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