Quotes About Mayors

#1. We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.

Greg Nickels

#2. Mayors are judged by results.

Willie Brown

#3. Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.

Dalai Lama

#4. That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

Maxine Waters

#5. Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws ...

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#6. Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

Lou Barletta

#7. I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment.

Chen Guangbiao

#8. Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

Stephen Kinzer

#9. I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today's victory on the House floor.

Bob Ney

#10. I've reached out to other mayors throughout the United States to form an Olympic Task Force of Mayors, and to community leaders, Congress, and businesspeople. As thousands of people around the country join the movement, it gets more and more exciting.

Richard M. Daley

#11. You might discover that, nationwide, America's food banks are experiencing 'a torrent of need which [they] cannot meet' and that, according to a survey conducted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, 67 percent of the adults requesting emergency food aid are people with jobs.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#12. I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

Emir Kusturica

#13. For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.

Tony Curtis

#14. Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.

Michael Nutter

#15. I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

Alan Autry

#16. Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.

Thomas Sowell

#17. It's interesting: the letters I get from mayors that want Wal-Mart to look and invest in their community.

Mike Duke

#18. Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

Rand Paul

#19. What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'

Michael Nutter

#20. I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.

Eduardo Paes

#21. What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s, Halloween was really a terrible, terrible night.

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#23. When I came in, the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. I'm proud of what I did. I built the foundation that mayors after me built upon - particularly Bloomberg. But the foundation was essential because if it hadn't occurred, we would have been another Detroit.

Ed Koch

#24. Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

Gail Collins

#25. I call for the need of world leaders to address climate change and reduce the increasing risk of disasters- and world leaders must include mayors, townships and community leaders.

Ban Ki-moon

#26. The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.

Boris Johnson

#27. A good musician can do more to change society than 30 average mayors.

Howard Roberts

#28. Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemoriam in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.

Joseph J. Lhota

#29. We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

Robert Burton

#30. Mayors are very different, because mayors can't be on both sides of every issue. Mayors have to take an explicit stance. Just go with your gut and say what you believe, and you'll be fine. If you're not fine, at least you'll like what you see in the mirror.

Michael Bloomberg

#31. If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.

Michael Bloomberg

#32. Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

David Wilkerson

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

Rahm Emanuel

#34. I don't look at myself as the mayor, I look at myself as just a normal, regular person.

Rob Ford

#35. If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

Delia Smith

#36. You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be ... And, you know you can be mayor.

David Dinkins

#37. We're not about picking a mayor. We're about making a mayor, making the winner. And that's what we're gonna do ... . I talk to them (the mayoral candidates) constantly. All of them. I know all about all of their families. I know about their dogs and this and that.

Michael Mulgrew

#38. I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

Jeffrey Archer

#39. There isn't a mayor in the world or a president in the world that can stop homicides.

Keith Hobbs

#40. Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

Harvey Milk

#41. I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Ed Koch

#42. The Mayor of Boston says he won't allow Chick-Fil-A in Boston. Amazing that a mayor now has the power to stop commerce because he personally disagrees with the PERSONAL views of the CEO of a company.

Mike Huckabee

#43. I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'

Sarah Palin

#44. Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

Charles Evers

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

Arthur Scargill

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

Len Brown