Mayors Quotes

It is very difficult to run a village just off property taxes alone. I need sales tax.

An elected executive—whether President, governor or mayor—needs a popularity majority every day in his term.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

I am a Londoner. I'm British. I'm of Islamic faith, Asian origin, Pakistani heritage, so whether it's ISIS or others who want to destroy our way of life and talk about the West, they're talking about me. What better antidote to the hatred they spew than someone like me being in this position.

To be elected to public office requires no qualifications.

Mayors are really good at dealing with things practically.

Mayors of cities have the political position to really change people’s lives.

Being mayor takes a certain amount of creativity.

I have a four-year term; presidents have a two-year term, because the midterm elections are so important.

I would regard it as a great misfortune to run for Mayor and still more to be elected.

We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the key.

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

I wasn’t hired to do well in the polls. I was hired to do a good job.

I've invested the money to bring a Republican message to the City of New York and to win. It's money I earned and earned it honestly. I owe nobody.

You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor.

This rapid transit underground road is necessary for the accommodation and comfort of new York City residents.

A chief executive doesn’t get to pick and choose which laws he will enforce.

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.

I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

My job is to reach out to 8 million people whether they voted for me or not.

Mayors are judged by results.

At times I thought guys were going to pop me right there in Town Hall …. The level of incivility is more than I'm willing to put up with. I like to ski … drink a beer, and not have someone come up to me and complain.

Mayors are accountable. Local governments are accountable.

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Can you be cruel and proud? For a great man among the commonalty, and in particular among such as we shall have to do with, will not be thought anything worth if he be not feared and dreaded, and at times renowned for his cruelty. It is thus that the Flemings wish to be governed; and among them men's lives should be no more valued, nor should they have more pity shown to them, than swallows or larks, which are caught in the proper season for the table.