Mayor Que Quotes

#1. A South Carolina native, Miles was a lawyer, a mayor of Charleston, and a congressman. He was one of his state's "fire-eaters," a term applied to men who openly advocated secession rather than finding accomodation with the Union in the summer and fall of 1860.

Clint Johnson

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

Rahm Emanuel

#3. As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

Gavin Newsom

#4. They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on.

Michael Kinsley

#5. I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.

Matt Gonzalez

#6. A mysterious character of UFOs is that they are sighted only in the First World,' she said, 'and no alien conquest of Earth begins until the mayor of New York holds an emergency press conference. When Mars attacks, it attacks America.

Manu Joseph

#7. The mayor of Newark, N.J. wants to set up a citywide program to improve residents' health. The health care program would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.

Conan O'Brien

#8. New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor's race that is focused on them.

Christine Quinn

#9. The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.

Adam Mansbach

#10. Listen. I own this city. Bought and paid for. I have the key to the city in my pocket and a tattoo that says 'Fuck you. I'm the Mayor.'.

Scott Lefebvre

#11. You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.

Will Ferrell

#12. At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.

Bill De Blasio

#13. I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

Patrick Ness

#14. Her suspense was terrible.

Thomas Hardy

#15. On March 4, 1981, Burlington elected him mayor - by a margin of ten votes out of more than 9,600 cast.15 ("Ten anarchist votes!" Murray would say. "And I know who they were!")

Janet Biehl

#16. They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

Clint Eastwood

#17. Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

P. J. O'Rourke

#18. It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor.

Julia Child

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

Arthur Scargill

#20. Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Beverley Baxter

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

Joseph J. Lhota

#22. The job of Seoul mayor is as important as that of president.

Chung Mong-joon

#23. Bitches,' Mr. Hammar says from atop his horse.
'Your analysis' was not asked for, Seargeant,' says the Mayor.

Patrick Ness

#24. Who needs the fairy tale when crazy, messy, sexy reality with the woman I adore is a million times better?

Kate Meader

#25. 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

#26. I want a formal apology from the mayor.

Antonio Gonzalez

#27. And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.

Bill Murray

#28. New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'

Bill Maher

#29. I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#30. Times Mayor of Abingdon - was, no doubt, a benefactor to his generation, but I hope there are not many of his kind about in this overcrowded nineteenth century.

Jerome K. Jerome