Municipal Leadership Quotes

Obviously as a mayor, I'm in competition with my neighboring cities as well as cities around the country.

Our supportfor assault weapons ban is very broad...I think we've got all the police, we have all the mayors virtually - the conference of mayors, mayors against guns. We have medical experts, we have virtually dozens of religious organizations of every creed supporting us. We have just lists and lists.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

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

Being mayor of New York was a crisis a week and an emergency every other day.

Only in Chicago do they care more about who the mayor is than who's president.

A mayor is a political leader for a city. He doesn't know anything necessarily about city administration, and furthermore he shouldn't have to.

I was director of governmental affairs at the Cleveland school district. I served in the administration of Mayor Michael R. White.

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.

I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.

I love mayors.

Mayors in any city are pretty non-partisan people where it's problem solvers.

Mayors are accountable in the way a council is not. Who can name their local councillor?

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

I get up in the morning and by the time I've gone to bed there's three or four or five new crises that weren't there when I started the day. That's what being mayor of Portland is about.

If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.

I think it's weird that people think someone who's not a politician could be the mayor of Chicago.

There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.

We had a very good number of mayors participate this year. All the mayors rode out with regular volunteers as well as members of our advisory council and our board members.

A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.