Quotes About Mayor

Obviously as a mayor, I'm in competition with my neighboring cities as well as cities around the country.

The London assembly's job is to scrutinise the mayor of London.

I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

I was the first mayor to even go meet with the LGBT community.

Part of me would love to be mayor for the simple reason that I love my city.

The background of a mayor of a city of any size is a background of somebody who on one hand is an executive and on the other hand is very close to the ground.

I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.

When you're mayor, not every project is going to go well.

Well I happen to be a Republican mayor.

As the mayor of London, my highest priority is keeping Londoners and visitors to our city safe from harm.

The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London without ever really thinking what it was a mayor would do.

I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate - me - who has the longest record of delivering for them. They want a mayor who can deliver for them. And I'm the only one - I don't care who gets in - who has that record.

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.

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

I'm in business to make money. However, I'm a mayor who fought for a living wage. And I believe healthcare should be a right.

Any U.S. attorney's office would fall over itself to investigate, for example, a state governor who, while running for reelection against a former mayor, so much as hinted to the mayor's successor that, say, highway funds would be restricted unless the current mayor were to announce an inquiry into her predecessor's alleged corruption.

Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.

career. Why didn't he wait and run for mayor after Daley was done? Barack would be the perfect candidate to bridge the city's divides.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?

She hadn't seen the mayor come in, though she knew he was behind her somewhere. She could sense the heat of his gaze, her hair prickly, her neck warm. How thrilling it was to feel this way, rattled by his mere presence, wanting only to give in to his pull. But desire was awful, too, full of trapdoors and sharp hooks.

My fight isn't with Charlie Hales. My fight is with the problems he has failed to address as mayor.

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.