M.I.A. Quotes

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

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

One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.

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

The government of the cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States.

You can't run a city by people who do not live there.

Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.

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.

Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country.

When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.

Some of the large [municipalities] in Quebec can contain within them most of the answers to their own practical problems. And so lots of different possibilities for doing things in a practical and different way become available.

We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did.

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

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

Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.

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.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

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

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.

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

You look at another team's style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they're doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

There is no manual on how to run a global city like London. But I'm hugely proud of what we've been able to achieve in just the first year.

I research best practices and recipes for success and failure to craft personalised policies for my city.

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

Being the mayor of the third largest city in the country, that's humbling, but it also gives me incredible hope.