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Ed Koch

American,  Politician
Total Quotes : 26
Wasting Suburbs Ever

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

- Ed Koch

Doing

How'm I doing?

- Ed Koch

Get Give Them

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

- Ed Koch

Primitive Strategist

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

- Ed Koch

Politics Costs Bucks

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

Me See Psychiatrist

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

Me Self-Confidence Punching

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

Jail Will Seek

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

- Ed Koch

Stereotypes Learn More

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

Think New Here

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

Better Wound Than

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

- Ed Koch

Tell Other Fortune

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

Today Fuse Each One

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

- Ed Koch

Will Person Bent

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

- Ed Koch

Law New Making

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

- Ed Koch

Art Older Than

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

- Ed Koch

Want Stop Drinking

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

- Ed Koch

Cause I Think Required

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

Hands State Legislature

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

City New Them

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

- Ed Koch