Mayors Quotes - Page 11

• I know people want to run for public office, for mayor, for city council. These are people who now want to change the country. Now, getting from here to there, it's a lot of hard work. And I think that the political revolution has just started.

  Jonathan Tasini

  Running, Country, Hard Work

  "A Look At Where Bernie Sanders' Movement Goes From Here". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 30, 2016.

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• The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump`s Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  New York, Cities, Rudolph

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Expression, Hot

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• I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell .

  John Lennon

  Stupid, Mean, Class

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Want, London, Firsts

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• If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

  Delia Smith

  Nerves, Jam, Traffic

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• My mom didn't run for mayor until she was 65 years old - it was like a second and third career.... The way I've always thought about it is that I don't believe you run for office because you want a job. I believe if you run for office, it's because you have a vision for change. And if I ever came to that point, that's what would lead [me to run]. And right now I'm happily in a position where I believe I can work to deliver impact and work for change.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Mom, Running, Jobs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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

  Winning, News, Election

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.

  Vicente Fox

  New York, Believe, Mean

  "Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Debates Immigration Issue With Bill". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 9, 2007.

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• I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform.

  Brad Pitt

  Running, Gay, Marijuana

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• Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.

  Thomas Sowell

  Race, Media, Black Youth

  "Social Degeneration: Part III" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 16, 2011.

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• The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Cutting, Cities

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• A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent for Oakland's youth) can hardly afford such social justice follies. But a pushover Democratic mayor and an overwhelmed police force have left what's left of gainfully employed Oakland taxpayers at the mercy of professional freeloaders and anti-capitalism saboteurs.

  Michelle Malkin

  Cities, Oakland, Justice

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• Rocky would definitely run for councilman. Maybe mayor. But these people are actually most effective in the family unit. That's where they shine.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Running, People, Shining

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor.

  Emilio Estevez

  Travel, Adventure, Night

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• The FBI background check would show that Rudolph Giuliani had an out-of-control affair with his Press Secretary while he was mayor of New York.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  New York, Rudolph, Affair

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Office, Rudolph, Lasts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I don't know about the press, but I know in the town where I live everybody was aware that I was in Africa, because I remember after I got back some of the people told me that Mayor Dura of our town said he just wished they would boil me in tar.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  People, Towns, Remember

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• When I ran for mayor of New York City, the first time, some people voted eight and ten times. And second time I had firefighters and police officers outside checking on the buses so we take down the number of the bus, the bus had voted ten times, and wouldn't let the bus vote again.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Eight, Cities

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

  Van Jones

  School, Government, Cities

  Source: aalbc.com

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• This is where the question always come up, "Aren't you going to split the vote?" To which the obvious answer is: Well let's just rank peoples' choices. This is a voting system we use across the country, from San Francisco to Portland, Maine, and the Twin Cities. It's used very successfully in single-office elections like mayor. It could be used for governor.

  Jill Stein

  Country, Cities, San Francisco

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• New York has done an excellent job. And I give credit - I give credit across the board going back two mayors, two police chiefs, because it has worked. And other communities need to come together to do what will work, as well.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, New York, Two

  "Trump vs. Clinton: Full Transcript Of First Presidential Debate 2016". www.ibtimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• His [Rudolph Giuliani] marital life became unhinged with his wife kicking him out of the mayor`s residence of Gracie mansion. That he took up residence as a house guest in an apartment owned by friends of his.The friends were a loving gay couple. And that is the best thing I know about Rudy Giuliani.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Couple, Gay, Wife

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number of more than 200 American cities who have signed on to the mayor's climate campaign.

  Bill McKibben

  Cities, Numbers, Political

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I remember my very first encounter with Japan. At that time, I was Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg. Out of nowhere, Japan's Consul General in St Petersburg came to my office and said Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs wanted to invite me to Japan. I was very surprised because I had nothing to do with Japan except being a judoka. This was an opportunity to visit Tokyo and a couple of other cities. And, you know, a capital is a capital everywhere: there is the official script and certain protocol. It is always easier to talk in the provinces, the conversation is more natural.

  Vladimir Putin

  Couple, Opportunity, Japan

  Source: www.rt.com

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