Ed Koch Quotes

When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

Ed Koch

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• New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Moments
  • New York

• Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Great
  • City
  • Fighting

• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Proud
  • Never
  • Say

• Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Famous

• I am proud of my career.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Proud

• I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Bad
  • Proud
  • Get

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I am proud of what I've done.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Done
  • Proud

• It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • City
  • Just
  • Technical

• Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Proud
  • Security

• I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Brother

• It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Experience
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Live
  • Respect

• I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • She
  • City
  • Wife

• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Proud
  • Beauty

• In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.

  

  Halsey
  • Career
  • Small
  • City

• St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • World
  • Culture
  • City

• Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

  

  Bill Janklow
  • City
  • Taken

• D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Love
  • City
  • Style

• Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Wisdom
  • Politics
  • Better

• Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Nice
  • Humanity

• You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

  

  Baden Powell
  • Wisdom
  • Discipline
  • Individual

• When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

  

  Ed Koch
  • City
  • Proud
  • Foundation