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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
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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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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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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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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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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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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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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
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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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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
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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 want to come back as me.
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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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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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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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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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