Chicago Quote by Eric Zorn

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

— Mike Quigley

Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is…

— Ike Barinholtz

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

— Eduardo Paes

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

— Richard M. Daley

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

— Dick Murphy

We need to consider that only a small amount of the public vote for the mayor of a city. It's because they are disgusted…

— Angela Alioto

The point is, is that when you elect a politician, it has nothing to do with their personality. Politicians perform a function, a role…

— Boots Riley

Racial politics in Chicago has a long history of being intertwined with the mayor's race, but I'd like to think we're past much of…

— Mike Quigley

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

— Eric Garcetti

I strongly believe being mayor is the public post in which you have the greatest opportunity to change peoples' lives for the better. People…

— Eduardo Paes

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

— Joe Bruno

I never had an interest in being a mayor ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce. That’s why I was able to…

— Joe Biden