Top 34 Chicago Mayor Quotes
#1. To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that requires being constantly kicked in the stomach, only to get back up on your feet and show the world how you survived it each time.
Shannon L. Alder
#2. I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back.
Richard M. Daley
#3. It is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.
Julian Huxley
#4. But then again what we seem to be is not always what we are.
Daniel Polansky
#5. She pushed him back to the desk, poking his chest.
I may punch you, bite you, crush your nuts between my thighs. It's going to be the best hate sex I've ever had. And your survival is not my first concern.
Kate Meader
#6. If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.
Amy Winehouse
#7. I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
William Petersen
#8. I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
Rahm Emanuel
#9. 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
#10. 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.
Jane Byrne
#11. Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#12. I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'
George Foreman
#14. If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
William Blake
#15. He was the hottest guy she had ever
seen, so out of her league they hadn't invented his league yet. It was like Future League of Hot Guys We Can't Place Because They're Too Fucking Hot.
Kate Meader
#16. Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
Jane Byrne
#17. While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
Rahm Emanuel
#18. I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
Terri Windling
#19. Who needs the fairy tale when crazy, messy, sexy reality with the woman I adore is a million times better?
Kate Meader
#20. Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.
Kate Meader
#21. The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
Bill Keller
#22. Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city.
Richard M. Daley
#23. Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has continued apace. For Rahm's investment banker buddies, the trend has been a boon. For citizens? Not so much.
Rick Perlstein
#24. Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.
Jane Byrne
#26. I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.
Jane Byrne
#27. My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.
Graham Moore
#28. I see that a number of persons might consider it appropriate to take the ECB as a possible scapegoat and I think that is not the case at all.
Jean-Claude Trichet
#29. If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows.
Chris Jericho
#30. I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.
Eric Zorn
#31. It turns out that the governor of California has more authority to name appointees than any elected official in America except the president of the United States and the mayor of Chicago. The
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#32. 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
#33. It's the only album I have where I can listen to every song with equal enjoyment.
Penelope Douglas
#34. You were right about Kastor,' Damen said.
It was all he said.
C.S. Pacat
