Quotes by Edward Koch

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

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.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.

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.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.