City Quote by Lori Lightfoot

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally,…

— Roger B. Taney

I know the way this city works. We have one of the most corrupt cities in the country. The reason it's so corrupt is…

— Zoey Tur

People make a city, it's not the other way round.

— Varun Sharma

In nearly a decade in city government, I have learned that the easiest thing to do in government is nothing. And in trying to…

— Michelle Wu

People work hard for their money, and they expect services for the dollars they put into the city.

— Betsy Hodges

I think there's pressure on every mayor who's trying to do the right thing by their people, and that's the pressure of a capitalist…

— Chokwe Lumumba

For too long, politicians have pretended to be bystanders to this cost of living crisis. But the truth is that city government has the…

— Zohran Mamdani

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

— Scott Westerfeld

There's no getting around the fact that some cities face long odds, and governments and societies are going to be confronted with some hard…

— Richard Florida

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify,…

— Zaha Hadid

The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people.

— Steve Schmidt

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to…

— Mark Twain