70 Quotes by Edward I. Koch

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

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot’s at the other end.

You don’t have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

Tone can be as important as text.

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.

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

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

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.

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