Quote

I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.

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
Two
Pass
Years
Tomorrow
Make
Difference
Differences
Probably
Doesn
Three
Another

More quotes by Ed Koch

Image
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
Ed Koch
Image
I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.
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
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
Image
Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.
Ed Koch
Image
In action be primitive in foresight, a strategist.
Ed Koch
Image
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
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
Tone can be as important as text.
Ed Koch
Image
But enough of me. Lets talk about you. What do you think of me?
Ed Koch
Image
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
Ed Koch
Image
The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.
Ed Koch
Image
If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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
[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
It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
Ed Koch
Image
God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
Ed Koch
Image
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
Ed Koch
Image
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Ed Koch
Image
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
Ed Koch