Mayors Quotes

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

David Wilkerson

Change, Judging, Wicked

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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

Ed Koch

Respect, Believe, Self

"Ed Koch, mayor who became a symbol of NYC, dies at 88". www.usatoday.com. February 1, 2013.

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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Burden, Heavy, Presidency

Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.373, Best Books on

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The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

Thomas Menino

Opportunity, Privilege, Neighbor

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This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

Marc Morial

Confidence, Recovery, People

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A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

John Hickenlooper

Cities, Citizens, Faces

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May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.

Cory Booker

Love, Inspirational, Hurt

FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Jan 12, 2016

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You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.

Dick Murphy

Impact, Important, States

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It's important for us to vote in mid-term off year elections in the times where state legislators and mayors offices are being vacated. These are the elections that actually impact the way we live oftentimes more than the President. So we have to pay attention to those things as well.

Aldis Hodge

Years, Impact, Office

Source: lasentinel.net

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For me to come in as the mayor already recognizing some of the problems that we were facing and also having put some of those reforms in place, I recognize what the advocates were talking about. I also recognize what the police department`s concerns were and what the community in general was concerned about.

Catherine E. Pugh

Talking, Community, Police

Source: www.msnbc.com

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That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

Maxine Waters

Cities, Resources, Congress

"Los Angeles Times Interview : Maxine Waters : Veteran Legislator Makes People Angry-but She's Never Ignored". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. May 16, 1993.

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An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

Enrique Penalosa

Cities, Car, Use

"Why buses represent democracy in action". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2013.

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Mayors are judged by results.

Willie Brown

Results, Judged

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If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

Robert Moses

Idols, Musical, Administration

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As a mayor, I don't make my decisions based upon whether it is a "Democrat" issue. You make your decisions based upon the people you represent as a city to move our city forward.

Marty Walsh

Moving, Cities, Issues

Source: www.mtv.com

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As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy

Gavin Newsom

San Francisco, Government, Cities

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I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

Alan Autry

Country, Police, Cooperation

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

Jello Biafra

School, Cities, Important

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As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?

Anthony A. Williams

Thinking, Frying Pans, Sitting

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I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

Fidel Castro

Airports, Dinner, Way

"Giuliani? He Wouldn't Get Castro's Vote". Interview with Lizette Alvarez, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 1995.

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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive

Gavin Newsom

San Francisco, Use, Small Business

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As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional

Gavin Newsom

Art, Support, Range

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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.

Frank Moore Colby

Men, Cities, Office

Frank Moore Colby (1904). “Imaginary Obligations”

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Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.

William M. Daley

Thinking, People, Rich

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What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.

Sonny Bono

Mean, Successful, Tvs

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