107 Quotes by Ed Koch

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

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.

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

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.

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.

I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.