Ed Koch quotes - page 2

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor. (Ed Koch)

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

Ed Koch

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

Ed Koch

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

Ed Koch

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

I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

Ed Koch

God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.

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

The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

Ed Koch

When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

Ed Koch

When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit. (Ed Koch)

I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Ed Koch

I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

Ed Koch

I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.

Ed Koch

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

Ed Koch

I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

Ed Koch

Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

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

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

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

Ed Koch

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

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

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

Ed Koch

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Occupation: American Politician
Born: December 12, 1924
Died: February 1, 2013
Quotes count: 58
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