Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
Ed Koch
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ed Koch
Age: 88 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 12
Died: 2013
Died: February 1
Film Critic
Former United States Representative
Judge
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Edward Irving Ed Koch
Edward I. Koch
Edward Irving Koch
Clean
Society
Bandage
Better
Festering
Much
Bandages
Life
Wound
Cleaning
Neighborhood
Wounds
More quotes by Ed Koch
Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
Ed Koch
It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.
Ed Koch
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
Ed Koch
I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
Ed Koch
The most guileful amongst the reporters are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who will seek to gut you on every occasion.
Ed Koch
Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.
Ed Koch
God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
Ed Koch
If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
Ed Koch
To learn something new every day is still exciting!
Ed Koch
When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
Ed Koch
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
Ed Koch
I want to come back as me.
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.
Ed Koch
[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.
Ed Koch
...what about the millions of poor in this country who desperately need assistance and services to help bring them out of poverty? Shall they go to the back of the line? and shall those who have made a dramatic illegal entry, who would normally not be entitled to government assistance, or even entry itself, be put at the front?
Ed Koch
I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.
Ed Koch
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Ed Koch
Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.
Ed Koch
I intend to vote for President George W. Bush in the next election, because in my view, he is best able to wage the war against international terrorism.
Ed Koch
I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
Ed Koch
