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
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
--Ed Koch
How'm I doin'?
--Ed Koch
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
--Ed Koch
I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
--Ed Koch
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
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
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
--Ed Koch
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
--Ed Koch
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
--Ed Koch
It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
--Ed Koch
It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.
--Ed Koch
No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
--Ed Koch
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
--Ed Koch
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
--Ed Koch
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
--Ed Koch
The People have spoken... and they must be punished.
--Ed Koch
The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
--Ed Koch
The Republicans are coming- make nice.
--Ed Koch
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.
--Ed Koch
There's enormous energy required to carry grudges- enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
--Ed Koch
To learn something new every day is still exciting!
--Ed Koch
Tone can be as important as text.
--Ed Koch
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
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
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
--Ed Koch
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
--Ed Koch
You don't have to be born in New York City to be a New Yorker. You have to live here for six months. And if at the end of the six months you walk faster, you talk faster, you think faster, you're a New Yorker.
--Ed Koch
You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
--Ed Koch
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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