Edward Irving Koch Famous Quotes
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
"We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God."
I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
"If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal."
"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 Irving Koch Quotations
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J Peter
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
Lydia M Child
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
Johann von Goethe
"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics."
Newt Gingrich
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.
Tommy Lasorda
"Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words."
Aprocrypha
There are two sides to every question.
Protagoras
"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."
Rene Descartes