City Hall Quotes

Never take an elevator in city hall.

When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in and out of it all the time. On a nice day, office workers and students sit on the lawn outside and have lunch. It's great to see how Northern Ireland has changed. To be part of that is fantastic.

Most of the job on DDP was already done by the time I became mayor. So was Gwanghwamun Square, described by many architects as the city's worst architectural creation, and the new city hall. I did not think that redoing them would be the right approach as that would only create new problems.

If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.

Our national leaders could learn some good habits and important lessons from city hall to take the place of the various gimmicks being used in Washington to duck federal budget responsibility.

For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

I think our communication strategy has been very disciplined as being a back-to-basics mayor and about focusing on making City Hall work and jumpstarting our economy.

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.

I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

There’s blood on many hands tonight. Those that incited violence on this street under the guise of protest, that tried to tear down what New York City police officers did every day…. That blood on the hands starts on the steps of City Hall in the Office of the Mayor.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

Under the Trump tax plan, we are no longer going to subsidize big government in blue states. Now those who choose to live in blue states are going to have to join with their neighbors, collect their pitchforks, and demand tax and spending cuts from city hall and the state capital.

Devolution [decentralization of government] cannot stop at the State House. It must go down to City Hall.

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

What was unique about me being in City Hall during the Giuliani Administration, I was the only one who wasn't an attorney. I may have been the only one who didn't work in a prosecutor's office. So I took a completely different point of view on how the city should be run. Very close to a business, very close on metrics and numbers.

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.

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.

It's made it easier to communicate important issues, but I wonder if connecting with millions of people online is ever as arresting to someone's attention as one man standing and screaming in front of City Hall.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.