Quote

The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.

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
Forget
Success
Never
Seldom
Forgive
Forgiving
Keys
Politics

More quotes by 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 was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Ed Koch
Image
The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.
Ed Koch
Image
Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
Ed Koch
Image
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Ed Koch
Image
I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.
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
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 art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Ed Koch
Image
I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
Ed Koch
Image
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
Image
Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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
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
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
...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to the back of the line? and shall those who have made a dramatic illegal entry, who would normally not be entitled to government assistance, or even entry itself, be put at the front?
Ed Koch
Image
I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.
Ed Koch
Image
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