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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Edward Koch
Art
Creation
Killing
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Edward Koch
Age
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Edward Koch
First
Windows
Writers
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.
Edward Koch
End
Fortune
If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
Edward Koch
Drinking
Want
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.
Edward Koch
President
Washington
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
Edward Koch
Violence
Will
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
Edward Koch
Life
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
Edward Koch
Action
Foresight
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Edward Koch
Today
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
Edward Koch
Life
Corruption
Law
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Edward Koch
Friend
Acquaintance
Old
Will
The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
Edward Koch
Killing
Will
Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
Edward Koch
Water
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
Edward Koch
God
State