Quotes from Michael Nutter

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.

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?'