Top 536 Mayor Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I get up in the morning and by the time I've gone to bed there's three or four or five new crises that weren't there when I started the day. That's what being mayor of Portland is about.
I want to be known as the mayor who happens to be Latino who made a difference. I ran to make a difference.
If I'm plowing the snow and filling in potholes, then I'm a good mayor, and if we fail to do that, I'm not. And it's got almost nothing to do with whether, when I come home, it's to a husband or to a wife.
I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.
On my left arm, I have the zip code 15104. That's Braddock, Pennsylvania, my home and the community I was honored to serve as mayor for 15 years.
The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said - that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists - is true.
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.
Well, I've worked with Republican presidents, obviously, and Democratic presidents since I've had the privilege to remain as mayor.
The truth is a mayor can actually do very little to alter the course of a huge city run by the free market that is home to banking - the engine room of capitalism.
On played the Mayor's daughters in Horton Hears a Who: I had never done animation, so I thought it would be cool to try something different.
I want to become Kiev's mayor because I love my city very much and want to improve life in it.
There isn't a mayor in the world or a president in the world that can stop homicides.
I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.
I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.
I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.
I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.
The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump`s Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.
Oh, when I was mayor of San Antonio, I pushed for expanding high-quality, full-day pre-K. We didn't have the resources to make it universal, but you could clearly see that that was what I wanted to do.
What does it mean to have a mayor who has an organizing background? It means I have allies and partners on whom I can call for advice - and that are also holding my feet to the fire already.
It's my responsibility as mayor to protect your tax dollars, be upfront with you about problems, and take aggressive action to solve them.
He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.
People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'
I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important to note that this decision involves potential risk to innocent people.
Part of me would love to be mayor for the simple reason that I love my city.
Obviously as a mayor, I'm in competition with my neighboring cities as well as cities around the country.
Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York. It brought the crime rate way down. But you take the gun away from criminals that shouldn't be having it.
My fight isn't with Charlie Hales. My fight is with the problems he has failed to address as mayor.
Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.
When you look at a mayor, Americans see mayors favorably. We are at the front line of what Americans are dealing with every day.
TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.
As mayor in an executive position, I have to dress more like an executive, which has been delightful.
I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
I honestly think Derek Jeter could run for mayor in New York, and if not win, get really close, just the way he handled himself.
The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.
To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.
Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor.
I don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny.
Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine.
Being the mayor of your hometown is the best job in America, partly because it's relatively nonpartisan - we focus on results, not ideology.
As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.
One of my philosophies is that citizens are the mayor... so we have citizens play an integral role in making policies and implementing them.
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.
You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.
I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.
Rudy Giuliani was a great mayor and a great leader, but he has turned into an unmitigated - and now, it seems, unethical - disaster.
Mayors typically don't do the things we're trying to do... Revolutionaries aren't typically Mayor.
Having been a mayor, we prioritized based on where we want our city and our country to go.
I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.
If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.
The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.
The London assembly's job is to scrutinise the mayor of London.
I'm not going to become an MP and I'm not going to be London Mayor. I have no political ambitions.
So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?
