Mayoral Control Quotes

#1. Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on environment. I think he was right to achieve mayoral control of education. I don't think he then applied it the right way.

Bill De Blasio

#2. Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.

Dave Ramsey

#3. It's a primary law of this world that the old rule the young, that one must serve mine's time. It is no question of ability. Else what would become of the old dodderers who cling to power?

Erich Maria Remarque

#4. No judicial nomination should answer any question that is designed to reveal how the nominee will rule on any issue that could come before the court.

Jon Kyl

#5. This moment is all there is.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#6. What changed your mind?" Say I did. Say it was me!

Kresley Cole

#7. Don't just walk through the flames. Get your Fred Astaire on and DANCE through them. Joy is around everywhere, even when the night falls hard.

J.R. Ward

#8. O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world at this time

Bill Hayes

#9. If you try to leave me like this, I will haunt you until the end of your days. I will drop out of classes and become a hobo and will leave you little garbage sculptures telling you how much I love you. Every morning. Right at front of your door. You will never be rid of me.

Thomm Quackenbush

#10. A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

Lance Armstrong

#11. You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

Diane Ravitch

#12. Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so.

Jack London

#13. Why couldn't I have puppy love? I only seem to have "I can't decide if I want to rip your throat out or kiss you" love. Ugh.

Andrea Cremer

#14. The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

Heinz Kohut

#15. Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.

Paul Ormerod