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Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

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Ed Koch
Age: 88 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 12
Died: 2013
Died: February 1
Film Critic
Former United States Representative
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The Bronx
New York City
Edward Irving Ed Koch
Edward I. Koch
Edward Irving Koch
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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 was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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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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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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But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
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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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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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