“You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.” BelieveSelfRespectArgumentSelf RespectBagsMayorsPunchingPunching Bag Author:Ed 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 you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.” IfsThinkingSaidEndsWalksMonthsSixFasterSix MonthsNew Yorkers Author:Ed Koch
“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.” WorldFallFoundIndividualLosesGroupsFitComplexesStereotypeFalling Apart Author:Ed Koch
“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.” IfsEndsWould BeAmericaHumorousFortunePotRainbowTraveledMurphyDames Author:Ed Koch
“There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.” ThinkingWayPersonsEnergyGivenCausesAmountEnormousGiven UpGrudge Author:Ed Koch
“Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.” WantPoliticalLyingEconomicWorkersEqualityFraudHypePretensePretensionPolitical FreedomEconomic Equality Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.” KnowsFirstsPoliticsSpeakWindowPassagesPolishBedtime Author:Ed Koch
“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.” TodaySuccessEducationInspireMemorableGraduatesGraduationCongratulationsFireworksFuseCommencementDiplomaFunny GraduationCollege GraduatesHigh School GraduationInspirational GraduationFunny CommencementInspirational High School GraduationGraduation DayGraduating High SchoolGreat GraduationLooking AheadCollege GraduationSchool GraduationConvocationGraduation CommencementSenior GraduationGood High School GraduationGraduation CardHigh School DiplomaMemorable GraduationGraduating High School SeniorsHigh School Graduation SpeechInspiring GraduationGraduating SeniorsHigh School CommencementHigh School Graduation CongratulationsHigh School Senior InspirationalGraduation PartySenior Class Author:Ed Koch
“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.” FeelsMadeCountryHateNew YorkLove HateLove Hate RelationshipLove And Hate Relationship Author:Ed Koch
“In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.” ActionAdvicePrimitiveForesightStrategist Author:Ed Koch
