Quotes from Ed Koch
I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
- Ed Koch
It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.
- Ed Koch
The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
- Ed Koch
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
- Ed Koch
Anybody who suggests that I run for governor is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst.
- 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
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
Tone can be as important as text.
- Ed Koch
I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.
- Ed Koch
If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.
- 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
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