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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
Jail
Seek
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.
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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
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I want to come back as me.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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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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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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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 know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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