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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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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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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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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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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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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.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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 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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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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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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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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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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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 want to come back as me.
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