Marc Morial Quotes

I said I wanted to lay the foundation for my governance and that included building relations with the City Council, with bureau directors, making sure we had the right leaders in place, making sure we're communicating with community groups that have an interest in of policymaking. I feel that we did that.

The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.

I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the 18th District, and they deserve a great deal of thanks for today's victory on the House floor.

Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

If you don't have the ability to work with local authorities, and confront corruption and tribal issues, then you'll fail.

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.

Government ... is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.

What is politics but business?

To be at the apex of the executive branch and understand that there are lot of moving pieces and the importance of working with Congress to get things done - I think that gave me a unique perspective as a young person.

Mayors in any city are pretty non-partisan people where it's problem solvers.

I'm an engineer, not a politician.

The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.

I have a long, long record of working with Democrats and Republicans alike.

In my experience, the most effective professionals in business and government have the ability to get things done. They're trained to work with multiple stakeholders, to understand how to identify a problem, devise solutions, to compromise and work well with others.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

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

The partnerships between Schmidt and Giscard, Kohl and Mitterrand, and even between Chirac and Schroeder, have proved that political differences do not mean that we cannot work together.

I love mayors.

The way I've gotten things done is by working with Democrats and Republicans. I worked with Jay Rockefeller, for example, on highway safety issues.

It is the mayor's job to be the glue that holds everybody together.

I won't be a perfect mayor, but I will be the mayor of a great city.

The background of a mayor of a city of any size is a background of somebody who on one hand is an executive and on the other hand is very close to the ground.

Politics, I love. It's a noble profession.

I think we've always thought that it's important to have a positive relationships with local government rather than taking a confrontational kind of stance.