City hall Quote by Laura Miller

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.

— Dick Murphy

I know from my experience as a mayor of my hometown, as a county executive and as a member of Congress that you cannot…

— Tom Suozzi

One of my philosophies is that citizens are the mayor... so we have citizens play an integral role in making policies and implementing them.

— Park Won-soon

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

— Catherine E. Pugh

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

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president…

— Marc Morial

We, through city government, can add protections and regulations and have policy conversations about so many aspects of what affects our residents' daily lives.

— Michelle Wu

I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who…

— Sal Albanese

When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people who just…

— Brad Wenstrup

Once you've been a mayor, you look to try to get things done.

— Lois Frankel

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

— Eduardo Paes

One of the things it's so important for any city government is to have the trust of the public.

— Maya Wiley