City Quote by Zohran Mamdani

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

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

There's something really interesting about current urbanism: the only model is the universal model, and there is increasingly incapacity to consider the virtues and…

— Rem Koolhaas

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

If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the…

— Jane Byrne

I want to make a city that can run smoothly with anyone in charge, even without a mayor in place.

— Park Won-soon

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

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London without ever…

— A. A. Gill

Oh, when I was mayor of San Antonio, I pushed for expanding high-quality, full-day pre-K. We didn't have the resources to make it universal,…

— Julian Castro

Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.

— DeRay Mckesson

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