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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
Judge
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Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Edward Irving Ed Koch
Edward I. Koch
Edward Irving Koch
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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I want to come back as me.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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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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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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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 UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.
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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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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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