Mayor Quotes · Page 6

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

— Michael Nutter

I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.

— John Hickenlooper

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive

— Gavin Newsom

Mayors love lists when they say something good about their city and hate them when they don't.

— Pete Buttigieg

Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.

— William M. Daley

There isn't a mayor in the world or a president in the world that can stop homicides.

— Keith Hobbs

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

— Harvey Milk

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

— Vladimir Putin

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and…

— Gavin Newsom

“If the infeckshun from the band takes Viola," I say, "you'll beg me to kill you after what I'll do to you."…

— Patrick Ness

As mayor of Anchorage, with 43 percent of the state's population, we have worked on a variety of projects from road projects…

— Mark Begich

San Francisco needs a Mayor who will make all our neighborhoods safe, a Mayor with a record of standing up for public…

— London Breed

You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one…

— Sal Albanese

“We declare you the new mayor!" declares the crowd. what about the old mayor?" I'll ask. I'm not the one with the…

— Bob Shea

I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate - me - who has the longest record of delivering for them.…

— Christine Quinn

Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to…

— Michael Nutter

Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where…

— Richard M. Daley

“He runs City Hall like a small family business and keeps everybody on a short rein. They do only that which they…

— Mike Royko

What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that…

— Walter Washington

Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my…

— Rudy Giuliani

Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this…

— Sarah Palin

“Mayor Bilandic had lost the ’79 election not because he failed to clean up the snow after those storms, but because he…

— Daryl Gregory

The opposition tried to brand us as the 'Ground Zero megamosque.' The language was deliberately wordsmithed in order to arouse hostility against…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Ive loved this job. It is my intention to stay as the Mayor

— Len Brown

I don't believe the mayor would be that kind of an ingrate or a hypocrite.

— Joe Bruno

I'm not going to become an MP and I'm not going to be London Mayor. I have no political ambitions.

— Karren Brady

I think I did everything possible known to any mayor in the country as it relates to saving lives.

— Ray Nagin

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

— Michael Nutter

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

— John Hickenlooper

I don’t look at myself as the mayor, I look at myself as just a normal, regular person.

— Rob Ford

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

— Lillie Langtry

I acted as Boris Johnson's chief of staff for his first few months as Mayor of London in 2008.

— Nick Boles

When you compare mayors to Washington insiders, Americans see that mayors actually get the job done.

— Wayne Messam

My top priority if elected mayor is matching Portland with economic opportunity.

— Ted Wheeler

If you're mayor, it's your duty to support all the groups within the city.

— Lauren Ash

Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.

— Eric Garcetti

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

— Jeffrey Archer

If there was a place called Cynic, I would be its mayor, its MP and have keys to the town.

— Simon Jordan

As mayor, you have to make a decision quickly and it affects people instantly, almost.

— Marty Walsh

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

— Boris Johnson