Sadiq Kahn Quotes

The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they can get permitted quickly and get building quickly.

what I love about city government is that the citizens can create whatever kind of city they're willing to build.

There are a lot of rules in cities that were designed to protect a particular incumbent, but not to move a city's constituents, a city's citizens, and the city itself, forward. And that's a problem.

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

I can sign all of the emergency proclamations I want, but that's not going to fix the infrastructure in urban Honolulu.

I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

I want to become Kiev's mayor because I love my city very much and want to improve life in it.

We need find the space to build more affordable homes in the city. That involves a number of different policy responses. For example, I've spoken about the need to rethink the greenbelt - the protected land around the edge of London that was originally intended to be protected and retained as an area of natural beauty but in many cases is neither natural nor beautiful.

I care about making New York better.

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.

I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.

A mayor is a political leader for a city. He doesn't know anything necessarily about city administration, and furthermore he shouldn't have to.

As go our cities so goes our country.

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

It is the men who makes a city.

If, instead of hiring half-baked revolutionary planners to fill our college undergraduates with ingenious schemes to disperse populations, split up big cities into little ones, go underground or into distant places to escape bombs and congestion, abandon large urban areas in favor of roadside villages, we were to publish reliable, simply written, common-sense information to control the building boom, what a country this would be!

We can’t be a great country unless we have great cities.

Let's make Oakland a model city.

All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.

I've done eight years as mayor of London. I enjoyed it hugely; it was a massive privilege.