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

• Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn’t let them get away with it. I’d take them on. I now perceive my job to include allowing people to vent their rage.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

• You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it’s good for one’s self-respect to be a punching bag.

  Ed Koch

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• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, ‘I’m free at last.’

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

• My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn’t make a difference to me.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

• It’s a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

  Ed Koch

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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.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

• If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It’s sterile. It’s nothing. It’s wasting your life.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

• You don’t have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Yourself

• When all are wrong, everyone is right.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everybody, Wrong

• 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

• 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

• 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

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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