Mr Mayor Quotes

#1. Comes to my door. Mr. Mayor now. Got the suit, with the American flag in the lapel. Don't join the military; don't help out the little guy; don't take in your tired, your poor, your huddled masses - but if you wear a little flag, you're a patriot.

Harlan Coben

#2. Are you aware, Mr Mayor, then when casually scrying the streets of London, you stand out like a giraffe on roller skates, yes?

Kate Griffin

#3. Man,ought to take care o his own business.don't you think, Mr. Mayor?

R.S. Belcher

#4. I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayor

Louisa May Alcott

#5. 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

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

Rahm Emanuel

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.

Kate Meader

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

William M. Daley

#21. 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

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

Laura Miller

#23. 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

#24. God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that's the end of it.

Mr. T

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

Patrick Ness

#26. 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

#27. Ive loved this job. It is my intention to stay as the Mayor

Len Brown

#28. 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

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

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Antonio Gonzalez

#33. 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

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

Kate Meader

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

Patrick Ness

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

Chung Mong-joon

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

Joseph J. Lhota

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

Beverley Baxter

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

Arthur Scargill

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. Her suspense was terrible.

Thomas Hardy