City Leadership Quotes

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

My top priority if elected mayor is matching Portland with economic opportunity.

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 pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

Mayors are judged by results.

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

I want to be the light of my city.

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

The mayor of New York is the chief executive of the city. It is a complex organization and it requires the requisite skills to understand how to be the leader of the people and manage the government of N.Y.

The job of Seoul mayor is as important as that of president.

To me, the most powerful people in this country, politically, are mayors. If you took all the mayors of the 25 biggest cities and you got them together, you could do more on that level than you ever could through the bureaucracy in Washington.

The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London without ever really thinking what it was a mayor would do.

When you look at a mayor, Americans see mayors favorably. We are at the front line of what Americans are dealing with every day.

I tell you very openly: it's much easier to be the heavyweight champion of the world than to be the mayor of Kiev.

As Mayor, I have a responsibility to ensure city government is making life better for all Angelenos, especially those whose past hard work laid the foundation for the city we enjoy today. Whether someone is born here, or comes here for college, career, or retirement, I want L.A. to be a place that welcomes all generations.

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor's race that is focused on them.

I am running to be the 50th mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government is accountable to its people and is aggressively innovative in how it identifies and solves its problems.

San Francisco needs a Mayor who will make all our neighborhoods safe, a Mayor with a record of standing up for public safety and fighting for the resources we need.

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

If I paid more attention to my appearance, people might think that the proficiency of design industry isn't too bad in a city with such a chief executive.

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

I strongly believe being mayor is the public post in which you have the greatest opportunity to change peoples' lives for the better. People live in cities, not states or nations. As a mayor, you are connected directly to citizens.

As a chief executive determined to lead Hong Kong to new heights, I am keenly aware of the immense responsibilities on my shoulders.