Ed Koch Quotes

Facebook and pictures on the Internet have created such a different way of dating. It's not necessarily good because an obsessive quality can develop in people.

I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to be the everyman who navigates the amazing stuff around them.

If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.

My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.

I've always believed in the saying that "there is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit."

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.

In America, the first thing we have to get rid of is entitlements for the wealthy, and at the same time, open up the economy to the disadvantaged.

I agree with George Washington's concern about parties: They become an end in themselves, rather than being committed to helping people improve their lives.

We oppose all corporate welfare, whether we benefit or not. You will find that our policy positions mainly hurt our profitability rather than help it.

Corporate welfare, I think, is a disaster for this country. It's crippling our economy. It is contributing to a permanent underclass and corrupting the business community.

Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.

In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.

The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.

If Hillary Clinton had policies that would more likely make people's lives better than Republicans, I'd be for Hillary. I'm for whoever will do that. I couldn't care less.

Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.

We try to reward people according to the value they create, value they create in society and for the company.

The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.

I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that this is a system for moral people. It will work for no other.

Scientific discoveries and innovation come from combining different existing technologies and different perspectives in a unique way.

Just Donald Trump's tenor and insulting of people is just beyond the pale.

I don't believe in a plumb line. I believe in the exchange of ideas.

You can't start taking away benefits if people don't have any opportunities.

What we need to work on is how to increase productivity. And then everybody will be better off.

Just spreading the money around - that isn't what makes people better off; it's having more and better goods and services.

I have been a libertarian in my past but now I consider myself a classical liberal.

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.

Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

...the mayor should not be advancing a policy that encourages [illegal] immigrants to think of New York City as their safe haven.

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.

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.

Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

Tone can be as important as text.

Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.

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.

I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.

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

I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

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.

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.