More From Ed Koch
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Society
- "Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about."― Katharine Hepburn
- "In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff."― Ethan Hawke
- "Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society."― E. O. Wilson