Ed Koch Quotes

• You’re not a nice guy if you have a gun, even if you are a nice guy.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That’s not history; that’s psychiatry.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Truth

• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Politics

• The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth – something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food – just watch it, don’t eat it.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diet, Eat, Food

• I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Age, Funny

• I’m not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

• 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.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Like, Making, Deals

• 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.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Politics

• If they don’t want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Themselves

• If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot’s at the other end.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Corruption, Dangerous

• The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Art, Creation

• In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Neighborhood

• If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Violence

• Tone can be as important as text.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tone

• The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Follow, Yourself

• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Slightest, Acquaintance, Friend

• We’re in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in God

  Tags in State, Legislature

• Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City’s got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

Ed Koch (35)

Birth:	12th December, 1924
Death:	1st February, 2013
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Ed Koch was an American lawyer, politician, political commentator, movie critic and reality television arbitrator. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and three terms as mayor of New York City, which he led from fiscal insolvency to economic boom, from 1978 to 1989.

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