Advisory Quote by Rashida Jones

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

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

— Lois Frankel

During the fall of my junior year, I interned in Intergovernmental Affairs in The White House with a focus on outreach to local elected…

— Michael Tubbs

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

— Leigh Newman

I started doing organizing work as a teenager. I was part of an organization called the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement at 14.

— Tarana Burke

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like…

— Jennifer Pahlka

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it…

— Harold H. Greene

I've worked since taking a newspaper route at age 9 and served as a prosecutor, a planning commissioner, a city councilman, and a congressman…

— Eric Swalwell

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

— Harold Washington

My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back…

— Michael Moore

I spent 19 years as a local government official; I spent two years in the Iowa Senate; my daughter is a public school teacher.…

— Kim Reynolds