The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like ma...
EDWARD KOCH Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terri...
EDWARD KOCH The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
EDWARD KOCH If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal,...
EDWARD KOCH If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't ...
EDWARD KOCH I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.
EDWARD KOCH I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
EDWARD KOCH I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I...
EDWARD KOCH The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be suppo...
EDWARD KOCH You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.
EDWARD KOCH If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me...
EDWARD KOCH I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
EDWARD KOCH The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us we...
EDWARD KOCH The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or w...
EDWARD KOCH If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
EDWARD KOCH The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
EDWARD KOCH In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
EDWARD KOCH When all are wrong, everyone is right.
EDWARD KOCH The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
EDWARD KOCH We have an inner window through which we can see the world, and though it gets cloudy in life, it...
SEBASTIAN KOCH There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old...
ED KOCH Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.
SALLY KOCH The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
ED KOCH Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.
SALLY KOCH Everybody in the world thought we couldn't do it. But we did, dammit.
BILL KOCH AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY

For every star in the sky
Someone is holding his ground.
KENNETH KOCH The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
ED KOCH I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I...
ED KOCH We are not trying to prevent new clean energy businesses from succeeding. Any business that's ec...
CHARLES KOCH When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven...
KENNETH KOCH It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.
KENNETH KOCH Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I&...
KENNETH KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punchi...
ED KOCH The country - or the government - is headed for bankruptcy. So we're going to be continuing to s...
CHARLES KOCH Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
ED KOCH Any of the social changes in American history are because people thought there was injustice. We hav...
CHARLES KOCH If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me...
ED KOCH Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically conn...
CHARLES KOCH I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgi...
ALEXANDER KOCH My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the...
ALEXANDER KOCH My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can...
ED KOCH As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that the...
KENNETH KOCH Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
SALLY KOCH Laying the groundwork for smaller, smarter government, especially at the federal level, is going to ...
CHARLES KOCH It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
KENNETH KOCH Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard...
CHARLES KOCH When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got ...
ED KOCH I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because...
ED KOCH With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over ...
BILLY KOCH In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
ED KOCH Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you...
KENNETH KOCH You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been.
KENNETH KOCH If the canal chooses not to expand, trade will continue to flow and go elsewhere.
CHRIS KOCH Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
KENNETH KOCH He plays like a senior. He just hits big shots.
ADAM KOCH We knew before the year we had a good team. We never thought we would be undefeated but we could mak...
ADAM KOCH We didn't want to share it. We thought that would put a damper on the end of the season.
ADAM KOCH There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideol...
ED KOCH I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I ...
ED KOCH We see risks of a decline in fourth quarter GDP and are expecting a flat reading.
ALEXANDER KOCH One should not translate the increase one-on-one into future hard data.
ALEXANDER KOCH It's quite likely that we have now seen the peak in the current business sentiment cycle.
ALEXANDER KOCH The current economic situation should improve the overall labor market situation in the course of th...
ALEXANDER KOCH The recent weak data should remind us that the exceptional gains in business confidence and new expo...
ALEXANDER KOCH A recovery of private consumption is on the cards this year.
ALEXANDER KOCH The worst in retail sales should be behind us. A recovery of private consumption is in the cards thi...
ALEXANDER KOCH All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world b...
CHRISTOPHER KOCH Fair taxation, that's the issue here. Anyone who puts any other kind of gloss on it is not reflectin...
ROBERT KOCH The legal issue is all about discrimination, ... The case has nothing to do with the serious issue o...
ROBERT KOCH The United States has the most open wine market in the world.
ROBERT KOCH These grants support the tremendous work being done by our state's regional associations on behalf o...
ROBERT KOCH Oh, good. Okay, I'd like to get more sleep before I have to figure out how we find a Sith Lord in Wa...
GINI KOCH That's the Claiborne way. That's the way it was with Mr. Prospector and Nijinsky, and that probably ...
GUS KOCH I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, thoug...
KENNETH KOCH Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say somethi...
HERMAN KOCH When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the fou...
ED KOCH Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, ...
CHARLES KOCH When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how...
CHARLES KOCH There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them ...
ED KOCH It's quite an honor. It's also nice to have Andrea be named because we've been through everything to...
BETHANY KOCH We have one more step. We've been waiting for this game. We just have to realize this is it. Our sea...
BETHANY KOCH It's very exciting. It feels like we just won states. Everyone's crying. We deserve this. We've work...
BETHANY KOCH That was real big. We knew we could do it, but to get off to a start like that ... I didn't expect t...
BETHANY KOCH I was feeling good. It was a good night.
BETHANY KOCH We got knocked out by Serra before, so they're kind of a rival to us. We're going to be fired up for...
BETHANY KOCH For a while, they were getting every rebound, and we got chewed out about that. After that, everyone...
BETHANY KOCH Mergers that are announced in January typically get started the prior September.
STEVEN KOCH That's not really how he is. He's just like your regular young guy. It's all just a show ? I hope.
ANDY KOCH By joining our group of privately held companies, Georgia-Pacific will be able to maintain a long-te...
CHARLES KOCH Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time tr...
SEBASTIAN KOCH No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. ...
ED KOCH I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I...
ED KOCH Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in...
ED KOCH For me, it depends only on the script, the part I'm doing, and the people around me. It could be...
SEBASTIAN KOCH Our hearts and prayers go out to all of these people as they begin the hard work of rebuilding their...
CHARLES KOCH I'm sometimes astonished at how much the German voter can take of this. It's like a powder keg that ...
ROLAND KOCH That's how a lot of agencies have been born or made it over the hump. The demise of one allows some ...
DAVID KOCH I use paper, plastics, textiles and rubbish,
CHRISTIAN KOCH I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive ...
CHRISTOPHER KOCH It's another week for me to wear this Missouri State uniform. I like playing for this coaching staff...
KARI KOCH We don't celebrate our grand openings with a ribbon cutting. We have a board that is decorated and s...
JEFF KOCH [Also Monday, the host committee for the Republican National Convention in New York is releasing new...
ED KOCH It's an alternative fuel that is friendly for the environment. But it's complete nonsense to suggest...
CHRISTIAN KOCH Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that al...
CHARLES KOCH The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, busine...
CHARLES KOCH She's always stepped up when we've needed her. When Andrea was sick and missed a game, (Davis) stepp...
BETHANY KOCH He's humble and polite. They're going to find him refreshing. I think he'll have them eating out of ...
JOE KOCH We'll always have Paris.
HOWARD KOCH To the extent that we might have been hurting these children it's only been for a short period of ti...
ROBERT KOCH That's when Suffolk passed the law, and we did it to be in compliance with the law.
ROBERT KOCH This is an important first step in leveling the playing field, and establishes an environment for co...
ROBERT KOCH I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months...
ED KOCH Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anyt...
KENNETH KOCH I'd like to play here. They have got so much young talent that they are going to be a good team.
BILLY KOCH I appreciate that he pulled a Billy Koch and we were able to win.
BILLY KOCH We played hard and I don't think any guy has a reason to hold his head low except for me, because I ...
BILLY KOCH I'm still pretty ticked off. You learn from your mistakes, and I have 5 1/2 months to learn from the...
BILLY KOCH I saw a few fans today and they were saying things like "Great season." But in my mind, you're only ...
BILLY KOCH Any 1-2-3 outing feels great. Pitching effectively, that's the biggest thing. . . . I never set a nu...
BILLY KOCH I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there,...
BILLY KOCH With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here...
BILLY KOCH But I'm looking forward to getting out there and hitting the glove. I think all that's behind me. I'...
BILLY KOCH You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody,...
BILLY KOCH For example, the shift control sensors detect acceleration and prepare for the coming up shift by ac...
MICHL KOCH Interest in dual clutch transmissions is primarily a European phenomenon. In North America, automati...
MICHL KOCH What's attractive about the Roth K is that it allows those in the upper-income bracket to contribute...
DAVID KOCH I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months...
ED KOCH The Republicans are coming -- make nice.
ED KOCH Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
ED KOCH The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse
ED KOCH He came to see me a few weeks ago, and I said, 'You're not doing it exactly the way I did it,' ... '...
ED KOCH Of course, I like Byron enormously; I'm crazy about Don Juan. And of course Keats and Shelley and I ...
KENNETH KOCH I'm sometimes astonished at how much the German voter can take of this.
ROLAND KOCH I sometimes heard the parents of Michel's playmates sigh about how, after a busy day, they really ne...
HERMAN KOCH We're hoping that next year when they choose their major and minors, they'll choose the sciences.
KEE KOCH Because these elements are not rigid constructions, but allow for small enlargements and modificatio...
MICHL KOCH We are all staggered by the size of it. We are in awe that we were able to make this acquisition. We...
DAVID KOCH To have a name amongst the 10,000 plus, that you can call your uncle, is a special thing.
CHRIS KOCH Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. -Sally Koch.
SALLY KOCH We need this. We've come all this way and we've put so many hours into studying the issue that we sh...
DAVID KOCH There's another show saying they have Delta today but Delta is a Seven lady.
DAVID KOCH Bruce is somebody who looks at the big picture. He?s very logical, but he also works well with peopl...
DAVID KOCH They're real life demonstrations of the biblical adage 'If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a da...
DAVID KOCH No government money goes into this,
DAVID KOCH I had a good day and hit the ball very well. I think I only missed two greens and I don't think I mi...
CARIN KOCH I know they're great players, and I think they're going to do really good, if they just get their cl...
CARIN KOCH You're thinking about your own match, but it's hard not to look at the board. With all the matches g...
CARIN KOCH It's hard to play with equipment you're not used to. They need to feel comfortable with their equipm...
CARIN KOCH We're very aware of the situation that we haven't won there before,
CARIN KOCH I have some good pictures from our team camps. We used to have a really good time back then. I won't...
CARIN KOCH We'll see. She is getting up there [in age].
CHARLES KOCH The cuts are so deep for this small district that the board just wants to make ... sure they are mak...
CHARLES KOCH Dave Robertson is a proven leader who clearly exemplifies our guiding principles. His accomplishment...
CHARLES KOCH Business managers don't want to come here because you have a former business manager on the board,
CHARLES KOCH I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I'd never set the safety. I decid...
GINI KOCH You throw a rock in the water, and ripples spread out slowly. But they do go far.
SEBASTIAN KOCH I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never hi...
CHRISTOPHER KOCH If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues...
ED KOCH You ever flown something before?" (Christopher)
"I hold the highest score at A.S.U. for Star Wa...
GINI KOCH What song would lull a snake into submission? "John Mayer?"
"Over my dead body."
"Could be...
GINI KOCH Do I really run like that?" (Kitty)
"Yup," Martini confirmed. "Don't worry, I think it's sexy."...
GINI KOCH I didn't putt like I did yesterday, but the greens were beautiful. If you get it on the right line, ...
CARIN KOCH It's tough. You're out there thinking about your own match, trying to take your own opponent. With a...
CARIN KOCH You're thinking about your own match, but it's hard not to look at the board. With all the matches g...
CARIN KOCH If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you do...
ED KOCH Twelve years ago, if someone attacked me, I wouldn't let them get away with it. I'd take the...
ED KOCH I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
ED KOCH We thought this was an excellent way to come together as a county to show our support for those who ...
DERRICK KOCH The girls did real well. It was a good team effort, much better than at North Harrison.
DERRICK KOCH I think he is in the great tradition of Pat Moynihan.
ED KOCH and I thought the people who voted against him were nuts.
ED KOCH I wouldn't take him lightly at all, ... Without him, the Republicans have no one. With him, they hav...
ED KOCH The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse
ED KOCH Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, li...
ED KOCH I am not for public executions, though I support the death penalty. One, it's an appropriate punishm...
ED KOCH In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than thei...
CHARLES KOCH Target shooting is occurring now. Paintball is occurring now,
DAVID KOCH AESTHETICS OF AVANT-GARDE THEATRE

Make the stage an actor
Make an actor the stage.
KENNETH KOCH The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us we...
ED KOCH I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve soci...
CHARLES KOCH I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems t...
KENNETH KOCH Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brough...
KENNETH KOCH From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competit...
CHARLES KOCH Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
ED KOCH Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would su...
ED KOCH We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature ha...
ED KOCH I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess...
BILLY KOCH I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad thin...
ALEXANDER KOCH I wouldn't be surprised to see the Shanghai Shipping Exchange spread throughout China, if they want ...
CHRIS KOCH When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools ...
ALEXANDER KOCH From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I w...
ALEXANDER KOCH Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
KENNETH KOCH We are riding the temperature roller coaster here,
GREG KOCH We're the largest independent beer wholesaler in Southern California, and our trucks cover a lot of ...
GREG KOCH Consumers are starting to understand that the complexity and flavors available in beer are deep and ...
GREG KOCH Never has there been a better time or place in history to have access to such a range of character a...
GREG KOCH The magazine and Internet program that Harmon Media Group has put together for us has allowed our co...
GREG KOCH