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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

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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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Violence

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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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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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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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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
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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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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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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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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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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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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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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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