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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
Violence
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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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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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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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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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