Mayors Quotes · Page 2

Mayors are known to be problem-solvers.

— Wayne Messam

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

— Harold Washington

Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

— Charles Evers

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

— Steve Hilton

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

— Jane Byrne

Anyone who is elected mayor of a place called "Sin City" is allowed to be a drunk.

— Bill Maher

At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.

— Bill de Blasio

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the…

— Rudy Giuliani

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

— Jane Byrne

Mayors, I think, tend to be more no-nonsense, and you look for economic opportunities for your communities.

— Lois Frankel

Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.

— Gillian Jacobs

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police…

— Alan Autry

When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the…

— Markus Zusak

Happy Cinco de Mayo. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, mayor Bill de Blasio is filling all New York City potholes with…

— David Letterman

Wherever there are rock n rollers, well play. Thats what weve been doing for more than 30 years - rock n roll.…

— Ronnie Hawkins

My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

On things like the minimum wage, where cities as well as states are increasingly looking at income disparity, mayors will have, I…

— Eric Garcetti

Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor:…

— Tim Burton

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted…

— David Dinkins

I have worked closely with many of our county commissioners, mayors, local transportation officials, and others to determine project needs in the…

— Bob Ney

In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of…

— Rashida Jones

Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

Creating a city for successful aging involves incorporating age friendly values into everything we do - every plan, every project, every design.…

— Kirk Caldwell

As Mayor, I have a responsibility to ensure city government is making life better for all Angelenos, especially those whose past hard…

— Eric Garcetti

In the Senate race I went for some candidate endorsement meetings and three people there asked me: Do you go to a…

— Angela Alioto

When you're drug kingpin - you're a mayor. You are a governor. But of a different society. You get to do what…

— Rick Ross

My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that…

— Julian Castro

Or I could see Fish, Just a button up, Like a Mayor, Like a President, Just demands so much from his teammates,…

— Kevin Durant

Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious…

— William J. Clinton

New York is a glamorous city, constituted mostly of nobodies. They crave the lights, and if they tell you differently, they're lying.…

— Charlie LeDuff

And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,”…

— Patrick Ness

I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home.

— Rob Ford

If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor.

— Amy Klobuchar

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

— Lou Barletta

I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.

— Eduardo Paes

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

— Thomas Menino

I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!

— Heidi Montag

For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

— Christine Quinn

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

— Patrick Ness

Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

— Beverley Baxter