Municipal Government Quotes

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

If some imaginative practical joker had been appointed by the malevolent gods to devise, for our sins, a system of municipal government, he would have invented something like what we have, though better.

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense.

I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government - whether it be municipal, provincial, or even nation-to-nation relationships with aboriginal governments.

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

The old line of thought used to be that local government is the bush leagues.

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will be to actually move to Chicago.

Cities are governed, so are houses too, by wisdom, not by harp-playing and whistling.

First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.

Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.