Mayors of cities have the political position to really change people’s lives.
The current situation [in Washington DC] will shortly and irresistibly tempt the Congress to reassert federal control over the nation's capital city. If the mayor [Marion Barry] can't restore order, the federal government must.
I'm not searching for ways to tell the District of Columbia what to do.
As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.
Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.
One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.
I am the law. I am over the slave owners that used to be over me. I am their mayor.
There are local interests peculiar to every town, whether great or small, and common to all its inhabitants: every town, therefore, without distinction of size, ought to have its municipal council.
Devolution [decentralization of government] cannot stop at the State House. It must go down to City Hall.
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.
Being elected as Seoul Mayor came to me like God's calling.
I still support the right of local communities to make up their own minds about whether or not they want to permit fracking.
Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.
You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.
Even under absolute princes, the subordinate government of cities is commonly republican while that of counties and provinces is monarchical.
