Action Quote by Marc Morial

I encourage people to use your critical thinking skills, use your vote - vote small, vote for what's going on in your city.

— Chappell Roan

I won re-election twice as a city councilor, and I did so by being a city councilor who communicated with my constituents, who represented…

— Jake Auchincloss

In order to do the right thing and to provide the right long-term view for the city, it might mean you're only in politics…

— Ted Wheeler

We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the…

— Greg Nickels

There are a lot of rules in cities that were designed to protect a particular incumbent, but not to move a city's constituents, a…

— Travis Kalanick

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.

— Clint Eastwood

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

I've not been a decisively re-elected city councilor and top vote-getter three times because I haven't done the work and because I don't work…

— Ayanna Pressley

I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should…

— Veronica Roth

Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap…

— Edward Brooke

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

— Lois Frankel

To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents…

— Michael Nutter