DeRay Mckesson Quotes

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

As mayor, I'm charged with a big-picture agenda.

I was elected to carry forward my overall vision for the city.

I know what it takes to move cities forward. It's not about rhetoric and great speaking, but it takes relationships.

From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.

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

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

We do need an attitude of leadership in our government which demonstrates faith in major population centres outside of Perth.

The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.

Having been a mayor, we prioritized based on where we want our city and our country to go.

People will give you the responsibility, even the authority, to go after the big things, the visionary things, the reaching for incredible opportunities, if they trust that you're running a city well. And if you don't run a city well, conversely, you can't do the big things.

It's really time for the State of Wisconsin to form a better relationship with the greater Milwaukee area.

I think of being the mayor of a big city with so many incredible things happening - but also so many challenges and opportunities - as really being kind of the chief advocate for the people.

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.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.

It's my job as governor to set a vision.

This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward.

It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'.

I'm convinced the question of development is mainly an issue of governance and leadership.

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.

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'

I care about making New York better.

As mayor of Anchorage, with 43 percent of the state's population, we have worked on a variety of projects from road projects to renewable energy to a variety of things.