Mayors Quotes - Page 4

• We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Cities, Balance, Needs

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• As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.

  James McGreevey

  Political, Ladders, Jersey

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• If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.

  Jack Nicholson

  Want, Dinner, Chance

  "Jack Nicholson: 'I have a sweet spot for what's attractive to me'" by Dana Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2002.

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• I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

  Michael Nutter

  Running, Challenging The Status Quo, Challenging Status Quo

  "Philadelphia Is Going Nuts for Mayor Michael Nutter". abcnews.go.com. February 13, 2008.

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• I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

  Patrick Ness

  Order, Dawn, Excuse

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• And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.

  Patrick Ness

  Running, Sorry, Eye

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• Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be.

  Tim Burton

  Upset, Faces, Horrible

  "The Nightmare Before Christmas". www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Nick and I could become goodwill ambassadors for the city now that the porno shops on 42nd Street are gone. Must make mental note to contact mayor.

  Rachel Cohn

  Cities, Gone, Ambassadors

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.99, Egmont UK

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• Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the humiliation of a succubus who moonlights as a Christmas elf?" "You always said I should quit the bookstore and find something else to do," I reminded him. "Yes, but that was because I thought you'd go on to do something respectable. Like become a stripper or the Mayor's mistress.

  Richelle Mead

  Suffering, Mistress, Bookstores

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus Revealed”, p.9, Kensington Books

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• I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

  Winston Churchill

  Math, Feelings, Let It Go

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.

  Patrick Ness

  Moving, Voice, Interesting

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• Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

  Patrick Ness

  Together, Chance

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• I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.

  Marion Barry

  Christian, Education, Humble

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• And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Writing, Years

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• Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into the past and as far afield as the Great Wall of China. With the restless curiosity and meticulous scholarship that have become her hallmark, the author once again has found a gap in my bookshelf and filled it, admirably.

  Steven Saylor

  Wall, Past, Reality

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• Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the Etruscans, she leads the reader on a breathtaking quest for the real ancient warrior women reflected in myths--their daring, archery, tattoos, fine horses, and independence from male control. The book's rich erudition, communicated in sparkling prose and beautiful illustrations, makes it a riveting read.

  Edith Hall

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Horse

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• Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

  Charles Evers

  Hands, Cotton, Picks

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• Our supportfor assault weapons ban is very broad...I think we've got all the police, we have all the mayors virtually - the conference of mayors, mayors against guns. We have medical experts, we have virtually dozens of religious organizations of every creed supporting us. We have just lists and lists.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Religious, Gun, Thinking

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• The NYPD with the unconditional support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has stopped-and-frisked more black men than there are black men in New York City. Institutionalized racial discrimination in the United States is alive and well.

  Chris Hayes

  New York, Men, Cities

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• I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

  Emir Kusturica

  Cities, People, Democracy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cheating, Car, Farming

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.248, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're not going to allow the mayor to hide behind the fiction of homeland security for his reprehensible action.

  Phil Boyer

  Honor, Way, Fiction

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• You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is it being used for? It’s being used to throw angry birds at pigs; it’s being used to send pictures of your cat to people halfway around the world; it’s being used to check in as the virtual mayor of a virtual nowhere while you’re riding a subway from the nineteenth century.

  Peter Thiel

  Cat, Iphone, Pigs

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• I'm very happy that John Tory won. We need a mayor of Toronto that will work with the municipalities of the Greater Toronto Area. We are the economic engine of Canada and we're not operating on all cylinders by any means.

  Hazel McCallion

  Mean, Needs, Toronto

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• Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a great American rogue, Mayor Buddy Cianci—a paragon of charisma and corruption.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Rhode Island, Islands, Political

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