Top 100 Mayor Quotes

#1. 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

Mayor Quotes #7226
#2. Ive loved this job. It is my intention to stay as the Mayor

Len Brown

Mayor Quotes #8583
#3. 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

Mayor Quotes #10089
#4. I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Mayor Quotes #13414
#5. 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

Mayor Quotes #19127
#6. 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

Mayor Quotes #21937
#7. I want a formal apology from the mayor.

Antonio Gonzalez

Mayor Quotes #29793
#8. 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

Mayor Quotes #39317
#9. Who needs the fairy tale when crazy, messy, sexy reality with the woman I adore is a million times better?

Kate Meader

Mayor Quotes #40123
#10. Bitches,' Mr. Hammar says from atop his horse.
'Your analysis' was not asked for, Seargeant,' says the Mayor.

Patrick Ness

Mayor Quotes #40488
#11. The job of Seoul mayor is as important as that of president.

Chung Mong-joon

Mayor Quotes #49155
#12. I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Joseph J. Lhota

Mayor Quotes #49347
#13. Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

Beverley Baxter

Mayor Quotes #70163
#14. I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

Arthur Scargill

Mayor Quotes #72625
#15. 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

Mayor Quotes #100495
#16. 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

Mayor Quotes #106281
#17. 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

Mayor Quotes #108419
#18. 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

Mayor Quotes #109789
#19. Her suspense was terrible.

Thomas Hardy

Mayor Quotes #115883
#20. I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

Patrick Ness

Mayor Quotes #119716
#21. At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.

Bill De Blasio

Mayor Quotes #120287
#22. 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

Mayor Quotes #124129
#23. 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

Mayor Quotes #127216
#24. 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

Mayor Quotes #129600
#25. 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

Mayor Quotes #129954
#26. 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

Mayor Quotes #130047
#27. 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

Mayor Quotes #132628
#28. 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

Mayor Quotes #140749
#29. 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

Mayor Quotes #147373
#30. 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

Mayor Quotes #148968
#31. You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Mayor Quotes #155880
#32. If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.

Jane Birkin

Mayor Quotes #158648
#33. Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.

Kate Meader

Mayor Quotes #167213
#34. I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor.

Michael Bloomberg

Mayor Quotes #173143
#35. Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

Ronnie Hawkins

Mayor Quotes #174646
#36. Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.

William M. Daley

Mayor Quotes #179727
#37. A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he only ought to consider whether he is doing right or wrong.

John Steinbeck

Mayor Quotes #182862
#38. But despite the challenges, I love being your Mayor.

Laura Miller

Mayor Quotes #183900
#39. In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now.

Richard M. Daley

Mayor Quotes #193441
#40. You have a mayor who hates guns. If it was up to me, we wouldn't have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.

Muriel Bowser

Mayor Quotes #197522
#41. As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

Gavin Newsom

Mayor Quotes #197748
#42. I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

Karl Rove

Mayor Quotes #207882
#43. At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.

Sal Albanese

Mayor Quotes #232947
#44. I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together. I was truly anointed for that position and I wasn't mature enough in my spirit, in my manhood to handle that responsibility at the time it was given to me.

Kwame Kilpatrick

Mayor Quotes #233855
#45. Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.

Thomas Hardy

Mayor Quotes #234507
#46. I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.

Mark Skousen

Mayor Quotes #235392
#47. The whole point of corporate mascots is to be distinctive. No one in his right mind would ever confuse the Hamburglar with Mayor McCheese.

Gene Weingarten

Mayor Quotes #247674
#48. 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

Mayor Quotes #256605
#49. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has been positioning himself to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Hillary once developed a program to deliver rural healthcare, while de Blasio once dropped a groundhog on its head.

Jimmy Fallon

Mayor Quotes #260447
#50. No, I heard some of the staff talking. She's all bad, that one. They kicked her out of the Lollipop Guild for theft, yeah? And she did community service for bitch-slapping the Mayor of Munchkinland.
Alexander

Melodie Ramone

Mayor Quotes #284718
#51. 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

Tim Burton

Mayor Quotes #285761
#52. I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

Anthony A. Williams

Mayor Quotes #304462
#53. Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

Henry Rollins

Mayor Quotes #306645
#54. As mayor of Burlington, I helped establish two sister-city programs. One was with the town of Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua.

Bernie Sanders

Mayor Quotes #311750
#55. The armored men counted to three, then burst inside the flat, shouting impressive things like "clear!" or "go go go!" as they did. Oda said, "Gum?"
"You chew gum?"
"No. but I always carry it, to use as barter when visiting prisons."
"Do you see how I'm not asking you?"
"Smart.

Kate Griffin

Mayor Quotes #312557
#56. I'm very happy that John Tory won. We need a mayor of Toronto that will work with the municipalities of the Greater Toronto Area. We are the economic engine of Canada and we're not operating on all cylinders by any means.

Hazel McCallion

Mayor Quotes #314771
#57. Anyone who is elected mayor of a place called Sin City is allowed to be a drunk.

Bill Maher

Mayor Quotes #316110
#58. As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

Gavin Newsom

Mayor Quotes #327303
#59. New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani fired his wife, Donna Hanover, as official hostess of the mayor's mansion last weekend. He's got his own idea of what a hostess should be. He wants a little cupcake.

Argus Hamilton

Mayor Quotes #327341
#60. 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

Mayor Quotes #339543
#61. I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.

David Dinkins

Mayor Quotes #340989
#62. For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.

Mark Ruffalo

Mayor Quotes #355024
#63. You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.

Sal Albanese

Mayor Quotes #355192
#64. I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

Jack L. Chalker

Mayor Quotes #363774
#65. I want to become Kiev's mayor because I love my city very much and want to improve life in it.

Vitali Klitschko

Mayor Quotes #366899
#66. Stay calm," the mayor said, though it was unnecessary. They were calm, resigned to the storms that had, over these months, worn them thin. How fast a new normal took hold.

Rae Meadows

Mayor Quotes #374608
#67. 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

Mayor Quotes #382163
#68. Mayor de Blasio said that whenever he goes to a Yankee game he gets sick and tired of people booing and giving him the finger. Hey, what do you want? You're the mayor of New York City. It comes with the gig, pal.

David Letterman

Mayor Quotes #382924
#69. As a kid I never knew,I'd have to hustle just to make it through so I found myself skippin' school 'cause the gurl don't think I'm cool

Knight Mayor

Mayor Quotes #386132
#70. Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

Charles Evers

Mayor Quotes #393971
#71. I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

Ed Koch

Mayor Quotes #394873
#72. banker, mayor of Frost - built their turreted

Susan May Warren

Mayor Quotes #396319
#73. Paranoia seems more reasonable when you've got twelve stitches in your side.

Kate Griffin

Mayor Quotes #397248
#74. There's always a choice," Viola says by my side.
"Oh, people like to say that," the Mayor says. "It makes them feel better.

Patrick Ness

Mayor Quotes #399338
#75. I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

Eliot Spitzer

Mayor Quotes #410336
#76. Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.

Rudy Giuliani

Mayor Quotes #417727
#77. UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.

Federico Mayor Zaragoza

Mayor Quotes #418021
#78. When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.

Jean Chretien

Mayor Quotes #420824
#79. 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

Mayor Quotes #421804
#80. If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

Harvey Weinstein

Mayor Quotes #422471
#81. I don't think so," the Mayor buzzes -
And my feet stop running -
But then I pick up one -
And then the other -
And I'm running for it again -
I hear the Mayor laugh behind me. "Well done," he says.

Patrick Ness

Mayor Quotes #423675
#82. I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

Ed Koch

Mayor Quotes #423982
#83. Without pain, it feels almost like I don't have a body at all, almost like I'm a ghost, sitting in a chair, blinded and eternal.
Like I'm dead already.
Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
"We are the choices we make, Todd," the Mayor says. "Nothing more, nothing less.

Patrick Ness

Mayor Quotes #424088
#84. So on June 16, 1970, history was made in Newark. Ken Gibson became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city.

Junius Williams

Mayor Quotes #429193
#85. You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

Lillie Langtry

Mayor Quotes #432060
#86. There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayor's office.

Harvey Gantt

Mayor Quotes #432436
#87. I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.

Rudy Giuliani

Mayor Quotes #437297
#88. Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

Jane Byrne

Mayor Quotes #439089
#89. Submit! Juliet's Joy screeches underneath him at no one in particular.
"I've got to get a new horse," the Mayor mutters.

Patrick Ness

Mayor Quotes #440673
#90. If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

Robert Moses

Mayor Quotes #442139
#91. What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.

Oscar Isaac

Mayor Quotes #446616
#92. I want to be mayor, but I don't need to be mayor. I'm not a career politician.

Dick Murphy

Mayor Quotes #451805
#93. I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the planet ... I see truly a non-carbon economy. It's cleaner. It's healthier. We're about out of alternatives, so it's going to be easier and more cost effective to start to do the right thing.

Will Wynn

Mayor Quotes #458305
#94. Mayor de Blasio wants to eliminate garbage. He believes New York City produces way too much garbage. Well, heck, forget about producing too much garbage. What about late-night talk shows?

David Letterman

Mayor Quotes #463161
#95. I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.

Kirsten Gillibrand

Mayor Quotes #468542
#96. 2010 Foursquare Mayor Of The Year

Baratunde Thurston

Mayor Quotes #470358
#97. I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

Jane Byrne

Mayor Quotes #476886
#98. I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

Fidel Castro

Mayor Quotes #482353
#99. I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.

Sal Albanese

Mayor Quotes #485550
#100. Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

Jay Leno

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