Ted Wheeler Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

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.

There are many challenges ahead, and one of the most important ones I face is ensuring the future sustainability of our city.

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.

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

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

You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

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

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.

It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.

I’m the first to say that I’ve no idea what I’m doing. There is no manual here for how to be mayor.

Being mayor of San Francisco is dealing with pot holes and dog doo.

As go our cities so goes our country.

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

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

It is the men who makes a city.

Let's make Oakland a model city.

I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.