Quotes About Mayor

Only in Chicago do they care more about who the mayor is than who's president.

People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'

All Labour supporters and politicians know that winning elections is extremely difficult, but my first year as mayor of London has taught me that governing - driving change and delivering results - is even harder.

Bill de Blasio, for his part, became the mayor of New York, surely the most powerful local political position in the nation, and arguably - after Giuliani and Bloomberg - one with a national base, one with, practically speaking, no job at all. He went from marginal political flotsam and jetsam to extraordinary centrality within a few months time.

It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor.

La casa del escritor en Croisset fue derribada poco después de su muerte y reemplazada por una fábrica para la extracción de alcohol del trigo malogrado. No sería tampoco muy difícil librarse de su estatua: si un alcalde amante de las estatuas puede levantarla, otro –quizás un acérrimo defensor de la línea del partido, alguien que ha leído por encima lo que Sartre dice de Flaubert– podría retirarla celosamente.

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

At the last parent visitation night I'd sorta accidentally watched a majorly nightmarish scene between Aphrodite and her parents. Her dad's the mayor of Tulsa. Her mom might be Satan.

He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.

Here's the way the law works," Carter said, "since it's clear you aren't smart enough to know. First, there's an investigation where we gather evidence. Once we have evidence, we arrest people. I don't care if you're mayor of the universe. You still can't direct me to arrest someone without evidence. So either shut up and let me do my job correctly or get in there and clean your own damned kitchen.

We found the Plaza Mayor, an odd square with an elegant baroque town hall on one side, and ugly 1960s blocks on the other three. A

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

We cannot have a mayor who does not support pension reform. We cannot have a mayor who will not support managed competition for city services when voters passed it overwhelmingly.

Pete Buttigieg is one of my closest friends as a mayor.

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.

We need to get his jacket off," I said. As Daniel helped me get the mayor out of it, the pilot yelled, "Whoa! Hold on! Back in your seats. We'll be landing in a few minutes." Fortunately, as long as he was flying the helicopter, all the pilot could do was yell. And if there are teenagers who actually respond to adults shouting at them, I've never met one.

he thinks the aldermen's job is to make decisions and then enforce them. When your father was mayor he said that aldermen should rule the town by serving it." Ned said impatiently: "That sounds like two ways of looking at the same thing." "It's not, though," said his mother. "It's two different worlds.

When I asked the mayor if flood insurance rates had gone up after Sandy, he said, "Not really." This is how disaster relief works in America. There are lots of incentives to rebuild but few incentives to rebuild differently, much less to rethink the long-term future of cities and towns along the coast.

The mayor will be remembered because of his refusal to accept political favors and he kept his campaign promises.

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.

I get up in the morning and by the time I've gone to bed there's three or four or five new crises that weren't there when I started the day. That's what being mayor of Portland is about.

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