Quotes About City Council

#1. Birmingham City Council was playing third time lucky with the design of the city's celebrated Victoria Square ...

Tom Holt

#2. Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.

Jack Kelley

#3. In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.

Bob Beauprez

#4. The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Marc Morial

#5. Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

Jello Biafra

#6. I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

Harold H. Greene

#7. When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people who just wanted to be a part of the community and give something back. They weren't necessarily trying to use it as a steppingstone to something else. I looked up to those people.

Brad Wenstrup

#8. If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

Sal Albanese

#9. The First Amendment is first for a reason - it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.

James Lankford

#10. Your projects can often demonstrative new and innovative approaches that can be supported and eventually replicated with greater support from the public sector. Showing up and speaking up at city council and state legislature hearings are essential, but so is the project work.

Mark Winne

#11. According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS ... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America's capital city.

Star Parker

#12. I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

Anatoly Chubais

#13. They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.

John Hume

#14. It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

#15. I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.

Tom Hayden

#16. Who can fathom the danger and pain of a visit to the City Council?

Joseph Fink

#17. What a City Council should do, and what it will do, don't always
match up.

Ernest Vincent Wright

#18. I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.

Alan Chambers

#19. Open your mind up to things that have no connection with the problem you're trying to solve: subscribe to an unusual magazine; spend a morning at an elementary school; go to work two hours early; test drive an exotic car; attend a city council meeting; ... try an Indonesian recipe.

Roger Von Oech

#20. There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

Steve Chabot

#21. I know people want to run for public office, for mayor, for city council. These are people who now want to change the country. Now, getting from here to there, it's a lot of hard work. And I think that the political revolution has just started.

Jonathan Tasini

#22. First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.

Julian Castro

#23. You know, we had the elections earlier in the week, and a dead woman, in Pennsylvania, somehow was on the ballot and she was elected to city council. A dead woman actually elected! And I'm thinking, well, I guess there is still hope for Al Gore.

David Letterman

#24. [T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

Albert Cossery

#25. The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

V.S. Naipaul

#26. Living a life filled with deprivation and working from sunrise to sunset from your earliest years isn't to anybody's taste.

Maria Duenas

#27. Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

Emile M. Cioran

#28. The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.

Jeremy Taylor

#29. Loser gives the winner a blowjob," he said just as I swung.

Sarina Bowen

#30. On local city councils being effective: The job of the council is to get together and debate and discuss. But you do it in a way that preserves the relationships so that we can get together next week and do it again.

Thomas L. Friedman

#31. I think everyone became sick of Sheryl Crow. I actually became sick of Sheryl Crow.

Sheryl Crow

#32. Hair Butch waxed so heavily that it seemed to scream up from his skull.

Stephen King

#33. Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.

David Baldacci

#34. I am really enthusiastic about my new council position because part of my satisfaction in life is feeling like I have done something. With this responsibility I hope I can accomplish things for the City of Williamstown and the people.

Barbara Lewis

#35. From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares ... yes ... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.

Laura Miller

#36. Already the rain had become an element of life like the air Mark breathed, and when it stopped, he missed it somehow, and found himself listening for the drip, drip, drip that seemed now a necessary and comforting component of his life.

Margaret Craven

#37. At the witching hour, the city was totally silent. Only the wind of portent blew through the gathered council of whispering brick chimneys on the rooftops, delivering the hand that would write upon the wall.

Wyatt Michael