Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ed Koch
Age: 88 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 12
Died: 2013
Died: February 1
Film Critic
Former United States Representative
Judge
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Edward Irving Ed Koch
Edward I. Koch
Edward Irving Koch
Writers
Window
Dictated
Politics
Bedtime
Speak
Dictate
Firsts
Polish
First
Windows
Many
Occasionally
Passages

More quotes by Ed Koch

Image
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Ed Koch
Image
But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
Ed Koch
Image
I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
Ed Koch
Image
I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.
Ed Koch
Image
I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
Ed Koch
Image
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
Image
[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.
Ed Koch
Image
The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
Ed Koch
Image
However, they ignore the fact that the First Amendment is intended to protect only against government sanctions for exercising free speech rights, not private actions.
Ed Koch
Image
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
Ed Koch
Image
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
Image
I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.
Ed Koch
Image
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
Image
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
Image
In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
Ed Koch
Image
I want to come back as me.
Ed Koch
Image
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Ed Koch
Image
I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.
Ed Koch
Image
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
Image
Tone can be as important as text.
Ed Koch