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

Ed Koch

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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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...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to the back of the line? and shall those who have made a dramatic illegal entry, who would normally not be entitled to government assistance, or even entry itself, be put at the front?
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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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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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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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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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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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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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 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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We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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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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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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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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The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
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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 don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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