Mayors Quotations

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayors office.

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

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

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.

I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.

What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'

Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.

I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.

I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

We still think we will enjoy support from a lot of individual mayors and council members across the state.

Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

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

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

There are no mayors and so the commission takes on a different role. We have limited representation and need someone to be our advocate.

There are new mayors who might not be aware of the latest developments. We need to brief them on the entire process.

We had a very good number of mayors participate this year. All the mayors rode out with regular volunteers as well as members of our advisory council and our board members.

Mayors took credit for it. But it was the Million Man March.

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

Mayors are beginning to understand that this is a market, not physics. If you provide services and amenities that people appreciate, they'll move. ... As new construction prices get extremely expensive, people are looking for square footage and architectural style.

Mayors across this country are already sending supplies to these areas, we are providing housing for displaced citizens, and we will continue to provide cash donations for these affected areas,

Mayor John and I shared a common bond -- we were elected Republican mayors in a largely Democratic city,

I'd like to see us solve regional problems by working together, the cities and the county, ... I'm anxious to work with the other six mayors. And I think, too, that it's important for us to do a countywide education summit with all the school superintendents and mayors in the county getting together.

Basically, it means the program gets funneled through us, but it's managed through mayors and managers. They're the managing agency; we're the lead participating agency.

From the governors to state legislators to mayors and city council members, every individual political leader tasked with rebuilding their state and communities will tell you the Gulf Coast's recovery is directly linked with the full recovery of the gambling industry,

It had a definite impact. We were handing phones to emergency service workers and mayors and fire chiefs, allowing them to make their first phone calls out.

People look for their leaders to show progress. And they look at mayors as people who solve problems. When they see someone who can show progress as mayor of a big city, they respect that.

I think she's the best person for the job, bar none. She has really demonstrated over the past three-and-a-half years her ability to work with mayors in dealing with the hot-button issues impacting on the quality of life of our taxpayers.

Most big city mayors don't make it to statewide offices,

We clarified some things, the mayors set out their positions on the future of Kosovo, notably on decentralization.

We have been working with HUD and the U.S. Conference of Mayors to identify places where people can be provided with shelter and an opportunity to care for their families on a long-term basis,

Using such high profile mayors will bring more attention to this issue at the national level.

We have to wipe out Bushism itself, before it wipes us out. That means showing up and voting smart in every election, big and small. I think that in many ways that, the local elections are even more important than the national elections. It's the mayors and the city councils and county comissioners and the school boards and the legislators that decide how to spend the money they fleece off of us in taxes.

We'll probably look first in southern Bergen County for a suitable site for the Jets. We'll talk to the mayors first and see what sort of land mass is available. I'm sure some communities would be quite enthused about that idea.

We anticipate it won't just be the mayors, ... but it'll be church leaders and faith leaders and non-profit leaders who will come forward from these communities and will help and assist with the effort. But the contact point and encouragement is initially going to come on a city level and the mayors that we've identified will help coordinate that.

We did something with mayors around the country in March. This is part of our effort to work closely with people in communities across the country to build support for the party and the ticket.

Traditionally, all the mayors that have been around during the time I've been around - Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani and Bloomberg - their hearts are not in the subways. The state runs them.

The much heaves and palpitates. It is multidirectional and has a mayor.

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

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

Rumsfeld wants that firewall between Northern Command and DHS because he's legitimately afraid that otherwise, Congress will rob the Defense budget to pay for homeland-security initiatives. The problem with that approach is that it provides no incentives for senior NorthCom leaders to build relationships with mayors and governors around the country, closely studying what capabilities they have and exactly what kind of help they would need in a disaster.

Oh God! The butt of jokes that I received from my fellow mayors throughout the state of Massachusetts. One of them said, 'You don't even know how to spell the word contemporary, never mind know what it is,'

A lot of Americans don't pay attention to their leaders on a day-to-day basis. They measure presidents, governors and mayors on how they handle big events like a hurricane. This event is not over because the bodies are going to be discovered day by day.

All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you. Crazy mayors want to tax the Internet. If government finds they can't tax the shopkeepers, they'll tax the shoppers.

All politicians are control freaks; they think they own you, ... Crazy mayors want to tax the Internet. If government finds they can't tax the shopkeepers, they'll tax the shoppers.

It's a good law today and therefore, Gloria cannot feign ignorance and the police cannot say calibrated response because they cannot prevent peaceful demonstrations just like that especially in the light of the refusal of the mayors arbitrarily not to grant them the permit because otherwise, you nullify the right of the people to peaceably assemble for a regression of their grievances which is guaranteed under the Constitution,

It's nothing more than a scam that takes advantage of two interests: urban mayors who need money and suburban mayors who want to keep the poor out of their town.

For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.

It's potentially a pretty fluid market. But the fact that a lot of these mayors and city councilmen brag about tremendously low turnover rates is an indication that local government employees are probably being compensated a little too well.

Dallas Morning News reporting clearly moves the debate forward to a point where the mayors of both cities need to fully understand the relative benefits of various scenarios involving the closure of Love Field, as was originally intended by both cities back in the 1960s.

You talk to mayors and council members in these river communities and they know every street in town. It's almost a prerequisite for their jobs. But very, very few know the river. It's a forgotten river.

It's not a one-to-one correlation between the positions. There are things that mayors can do that are specific to their city. Governors don't always have the luxury of a one-size-fits-all solution.

I've gone through the Civil Rights Movement. I've seen courts and mayors and white people do things, you turn your back and they undo it. And we don't need that ... so I speak a little different about it. I've experienced this kind of double-dealing, and I'm not going to take it anymore.

It will be used by Palestinian investors abroad and any Palestinian who wishes to move to the Gaza Strip. The departure of Israel from the border crossing would allow mayors and directors of charitable organizations to travel abroad freely.

They are learning experiences, ... You find out what other cities are doing to improve their government and you find out what grants are available. You get to talk with other council members and mayors to see what they're doing to make things better.

Small business owners see Mayors and other local officials as their biggest ally. Because of this, they are the key link to helping small businesses reach their true potential.

Smith said that it is possible that map lines will be redrawn. Deals were made at the map's edges. Some mayors and politicians influenced the boundaries. There was no science involved.

Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

I know how busy other mayors are, but these types of things, if I'm notified early enough, I'll definitely keep my calendar open.

I hope that by doing what the state officials and mayors are doing now, are getting people who are invalids out of the way, encouraging people to leave early, that when the storm hits, there will be property damage but hopefully there won't be a lot of people to rescue,

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

But today, Berlusconi owes an explanation to 8,000 mayors who want to know where money will come from for public services -- day care, the elderly, road works -- everything now financed by the property tax.

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

Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

The Mayor of Boston says he won't allow Chick-Fil-A in Boston. Amazing that a mayor now has the power to stop commerce because he personally disagrees with the PERSONAL views of the CEO of a company.

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

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

These kids right here, they're going to be mayors and governors and lawyers and artists and social workers and actors. And you're going to reach for the stars, right? You're going to follow your dreams, right?

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor,

If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it.

Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be

Mayors are judged by results.

I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'