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Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.

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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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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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Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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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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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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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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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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I want to come back as me.
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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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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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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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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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