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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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
Jail
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Violence
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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.
Ed Koch
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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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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Tone can be as important as text.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
Ed Koch
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
Ed Koch
I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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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.
Ed Koch
Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
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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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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues he also could end up going to jail.
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
Ed Koch
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.
Ed Koch
But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
Ed Koch
I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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