Municipal Administration Quotes

I was previously the chairman of the Jurong East Town Council and South West CDC.

I think it's fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.

If you want to govern the nation, you should first be able to govern San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles.

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.

Mayors are judged by results.

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

I've been mayor of the city of Jerusalem, which is perhaps, in some ways, more complex and more difficult than a ministerial position.

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

My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

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

There were the well-to-do intellectuals, pushed toward Fascism by their hostility to the working masses and by their disdain of the uncouth ways of the Socialists who, without adequate preparation, had taken possession of many municipalities and had been administering them in a manner even more ridiculous than dishonest.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

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

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

I am Port Arthur. I'm the president of Port Arthur.

I was a member of the Haifa City Council when I was 23 years old, which made me the youngest city councilman in Israel.

I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

I don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny.

I always tell people that being the mayor of an urban city for eight years was like getting run over by a truck every day. There's inner satisfaction, but 24 hours a day, every day, I'm on duty.

Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.

A million years ago, when doing research about the world of municipal government, one thing that struck me is how often people's job titles changed - from one department to another, from the public to the private sector and back again. People move around a lot, everyone has her eye on some other, slightly better situation in some other corner of city hall. Plus governments are constantly shuffling and reorganizing and shuttering or condensing departments - they are often byzantine hodge-podges of fractured org charts lying atop a bed of shifting sand.

All Labour supporters and politicians know that winning elections is extremely difficult, but my first year as mayor of London has taught me that governing - driving change and delivering results - is even harder.