Top 33 Being Mayor Quotes

#1. I strongly believe being mayor is the public post in which you have the greatest opportunity to change peoples' lives for the better. People live in cities, not states or nations. As a mayor, you are connected directly to citizens.

Eduardo Paes

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#2. I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.

Rudy Giuliani

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#3. That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.

Shirley Franklin

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#4. I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.

Rudy Giuliani

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

Thomas Menino

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

Rudy Giuliani

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#7. Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

Dannel Malloy

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#8. It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.

Gary Soto

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#9. If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.

Jack Nicholson

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#10. My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.

Brad D. Smith

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#11. 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

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#12. My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.

Rick Riordan

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#13. Come to think of it, I don't want to be my friend either.

Julie Buxbaum

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#14. I never had an interest in being a mayor 'cause that's a real job. You have to produce. That's why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.

Joe Biden

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#15. SIR! SIR! SIR! FORGET THAT 'SIR' STUFF, WILL YOU? I'll bet if that were the president or governor or mayor or some rich son of a bitch, there would be doctors all over that room doing something! Why do you just let them die? What's the sin in being poor?

Charles Bukowski

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#16. Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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#17. We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London.

Michael Todd

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#18. Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

Stephen Fry

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#19. 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.

David Dinkins

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#20. I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform.

Brad Pitt

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#21. You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.

Matt Gonzalez

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#22. The greatest enemy of any vision is discouragement or disappointment

Sunday Adelaja

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#23. If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

Matt Gonzalez

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#24. Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will be to actually move to Chicago.

Jay Leno

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#25. One thing I have noticed is that when you're a younger editor, you're more intense about it. As you go along, you relax a little. More and more, I feel that the book is the author's. You give the author your thoughts, and it's up to him or her to decide what to do.

Jonathan Galassi

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#26. None of what I know is out of books ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.

Caitlin Thomas

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#27. I don't hate anybody. My character is one thing, but me as an individual is completely different.

Larry The Cable Guy

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#28. He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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#29. Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.

Kate Griffin

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

Ed Koch

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#31. Because you "love" people so much no matter how bleak things are you will never give up on this world.

Hotaru Odagiri

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#32. Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

Adam Davidson

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#33. But despite the challenges, I love being your Mayor.

Laura Miller

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