"I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns."
-Ed Koch
SocietyView Quote
Other Quotes by Ed Koch
Discover more inspiring quotes by Ed Koch
"I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them."
-Ed Koch
RespectView Quote
"There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate."
-Ed Koch
RelationshipView Quote
"Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart."
-Ed Koch
PowerView Quote
"There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics."
-Ed Koch
PoliticsView Quote
"No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that."
-Ed Koch
HopeView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
-Steve Irwin
AgeView Quote
"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
-Anne Tyler
AgeView Quote
"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
-Brigham Young
AgeView Quote
"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it."
-Donna Mills
AgeView Quote
"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
-Thomas More
AgeView Quote
"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
-Rowan D. Williams
AgeView Quote