Mayors Quotes · Page 3

An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

— Enrique Peñalosa Londoño

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

— Elton Gallegly

The much heaves and palpitates. It is multidirectional and has a mayor.

— Donald Barthelme

It's interesting: the letters I get from mayors that want Wal-Mart to look and invest in their community.

— Mike Duke

Mayors are really good at dealing with things practically.

— Eric Garcetti

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

— Robert Burton

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

— Michael Nutter

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

— Jane Byrne

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

— David Letterman

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

— David Dinkins

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 have a mayor who hates guns. If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of…

— Muriel Bowser

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself,…

— Ken Livingstone

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that New Orleans, when rebuilt, will be a chocolate city. And he will be the delicious…

— Amy Poehler

This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the…

— Marc Morial

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

— Angela Alioto

There is a heavy-ego, solitary model of being an elected leader. We've certainly seen that in some other mayors of this city...…

— Bill de Blasio

They’re a nasty bunch of people. The Riot Club’s sole purpose is to celebrate wealth, elitism, hedonism, and excess - just random…

— Max Irons

A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it's good. I'm not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I…

— Tom Waits

I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and…

— John Lennon

I am the mayor of Boston, I am a Democrat. But, I am not the mayor of Democratic people in Boston. I…

— Marty Walsh

As the world's 'most dynamic' cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer.…

— Robert Hormats

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

— Walt Kelly

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

— Tony Curtis

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

— Stephen Kinzer

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?

— Sean Hannity

A good musician can do more to change society than 30 average mayors.

— Howard Roberts

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

— Eric Zorn

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.

— Frank Hague

I want to become Kiev's mayor because I love my city very much and want to improve life in it.

— Vitali Klitschko

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

— Beverley Baxter

I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

— Mohamed Al-Fayed

I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

— Ed Koch

TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.

— Jenny Holzer

The Mayor of Hong Kong, who said Can't work today. Have American flu. Never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

Mayors are accountable. Local governments are accountable.

— Eric Garcetti

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

— Alan Autry

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

— Ed Koch