DeRay Mckesson Quotes

New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor's race that is focused on them.

And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

New York has been embarrassed by corruption and lags behind in too many important categories. We can do better.

If you're in government, the right thing to do is be focused on solving real problems and asking what's the best solution to a particular problem.

I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four.

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

I simply want to do what I can to have the best Congress possible representing the American people.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

We have ... to convince the people of America's cities that government is on their side.

Choose the manager of your government as you would the manager of your private business.

Good government

I will never, ever, ever change one thing I did with my policies at city hall.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

Ordinary people want good government.

We are a government that does its homework and listens to the public.

In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.

Mayors are known to be problem-solvers.

Democrats and all public servants just need to be honest. If we have schools that aren't working ... we need to face the facts and fix them.

I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.

Americans are calling for a return to common sense in how we solve problems and how the people communicate with their government.

The country's future is what you will make it. Make your local representatives in parliament and assembly more answerable. Ask for more transparency in use of public funds.

In city hall and in local government, you have to get things done without drama.

Keeping government running really well, to me, is incredibly important.

Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.