Mayors Quotes - Page 10

• A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.

  Anton Chekhov

  Honesty, Giving, Justice

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• There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, Sick, Exhibitions

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• While I was the mayor abortions in New York went down and adoptions went way up, because we worked on adoptions as an alternative, so that there'd be a real choice.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Real, Choices

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Emergencies, Week

  "He's Ready! Rudy Giuliani Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2007.

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• The West has institutions that can punish the misconduct of individuals. What drove Rwanda and Africa into decline was the fact that certain people weren't held accountable. When we move to make corrupt mayors or officers answer to the courts, people always immediately say that we are repressive. But should we allow these people to continue to get away with it?

  Paul Kagame

  Moving, People, Answers

  "'We Are Far from Exhausting Our Potential'". Interview with Horand Knaup, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2010.

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• If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don't cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don't stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you'll never see it again.

  Tom Waits

  Baseball, Cutting, People

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2003.

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• After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

  Bill Ayers

  Thinking, Imagination, Guy

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• [Democrats] have got to start winning elections. That involves not some great idea, but it also involves recruiting candidates. And Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, who has given obnoxiousness a new definition in his personal behavior, oftentimes in his dealings with the press, had a very good point.

  Mark Shields

  Winning, Ideas, Chicago

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the Senate race I went for some candidate endorsement meetings and three people there asked me: Do you go to a therapist? Because they could not believe that with the beating I took in the mayor's race I could still come in there cracking jokes and talking about the issues!

  Angela Alioto

  Believe, Race, Talking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I am the mayor of Boston, I am a Democrat. But, I am not the mayor of Democratic people in Boston. I am the mayor of Democrats and Republicans, Independents, Tea Party, and the unenrolled. I am the mayor of conservatives and progressives. I am the mayor of all the different races. I am the mayor of the rich and the poor.

  Marty Walsh

  Party, Race, Boston

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• There's probably never been a more important time for mayors in America than there is right now in this country, because the people who are being targeted, and the fear that's happening out there, those people live in our cities.

  Marty Walsh

  Country, Cities, America

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• That was one of the reasons I took the role [of Mayor Amanda Rosewater in Defiance] - to be a part of something groundbreaking interested me.

  Julie Benz

  Roles, Reason, Amanda

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.

  Harold Washington

  Race, People, Chicago

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• I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though that they were only "suggestions" and not government telling people what to do. But then his constituents got very ticked off at the sight of their neighbors breaking the rules and demanded that they be made into actual laws with penalties.

  Gail Collins

  Writing, Government, Sight

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

  Jeffrey Archer

  Should, Vulgar, Populist

  "Jeffrey Archer" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 1999.

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• I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

  Arthur Scargill

  Running, Vote, Ifs

  2000 InThe Guardian, 3 May.

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• Anyone who is elected mayor of a place called "Sin City" is allowed to be a drunk.

  Bill Maher

  Sin City, Cities, Drunk

  "Real Time with Bill Maher". Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. (2003 - ).

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• The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Flu, Dinner, Today

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• Whether Theresa May had stabbed has stabbed the former Mayor of London in the back and Michael Gove had stabbed him in the front. That's about it. It makes House of Cards look like Teletubbies.

  Nigel Evans

  House Of Cards, Looks, May

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• We need to take a whole UK perspective on this [Brexit]. The Mayor of London has got a role in those kinds of discussions.

  Stephen Crabb

  Perspective, Needs, Roles

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• Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes to be turned out of the mayor's office by virtue of his election to the United States Senate.

  Gail Sheehy

  Class, Office, Broadway

  "When Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani Did Battle for a Senate Seat" by Gail Sheehy, www.vanityfair.com. June 2000.

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• As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic mayor in Burlington, Vermont, I know something about third party politics. And I respect Jill [Stein].

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, Independent, Office

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Girl, President, Clinton

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor. And someone else can be a police chief, and someone else can be a U.S. senator.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Girl, Police, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Did Rahm Emmanuel serve President Barack] Obama or did he serve himself as he prepared to run for Mayor of Chicago? I don't use the term black-on-black violence, since I've never heard the term white-on-white violence.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Running, White, Black

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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