Ed Koch Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New York, Relationship

• The Republicans are coming – make nice.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Republicans

• Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he’s running against.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Comparison

• I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you’re a New Yorker.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

• 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.

  Ed Koch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President, Things

• 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

• 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

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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