Mayors Quotes · Page 3

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

— Robert Moses

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

— Jeffrey Archer

I want to be mayor, but I don’t need to be mayor. I’m not a career politician.

— Dick Murphy

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

— Patrick Ness

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

— Boris Johnson

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

— Ed Koch

Mayors typically don't do the things we're trying to do... Revolutionaries aren't typically Mayor.

— Chokwe Lumumba

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

— Keith Hobbs

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a…

— Eliot Spitzer

Mayor de Blasio has legalized ferrets. Now you can legally own ferrets in New York City. I want to tell you something.…

— David Letterman

Congratulations to Ohio State, your new college football champions. Coach Urban Meyer may be the greatest football coach of all time. Don't…

— David Letterman

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious,…

— Bill Ayers

I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And…

— Bill Murray

Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz? And cell phones and beepers was the new trends? When Koch was…

— Biz Markie

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting…

— David Wilkerson

It's how you make decisions that matters, and that ought to be the question that people ask of any candidate for any…

— Tom Vilsack

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been…

— Mitch Landrieu

Former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, talk show Rush Limbaugh claim - " don't you love that,…

— Rush Limbaugh

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the…

— Harvey Weinstein

For me to come in as the mayor already recognizing some of the problems that we were facing and also having put…

— Catherine E. Pugh

The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment…

— Adolf Hitler

If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame…

— Michael Bloomberg

[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for…

— Angela Alioto

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

— Gavin Newsom

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

— Jack L. Chalker

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

— Pete Buttigieg

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

— Len Brown

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

— Harvey Milk

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

An Icelandic mayor goes on an anti-elf rant which gets him in trouble.

— Peter Sagal

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city

— Maxine Waters

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

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

— Wayne Messam

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

— Stephen Kinzer

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

— Tony Curtis

If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.

— Walt Kelly

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

— Jane Byrne