Top 240 Mayor Quotes

When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the economic impacts associated with the challenges of attainment and the legacy of EPA intervention that continues long after meeting the standard.

I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.

I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York – lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.

I get called ‘Mayor West’ a lot in airports. I’ve been very fortunate to have a fan base that keeps growing, and the work gets such a warm response and humor from people.

The London assembly’s job is to scrutinise the mayor of London.

I don’t think I’ll be a good mayor if I don’t live my authentic life, and that’s got to be involved with having fun with my spouse and my daughter.

I’m in business to make money. However, I’m a mayor who fought for a living wage. And I believe healthcare should be a right.

If people are a little nervous about approaching you at the market, it’s good. I’m not Chuckles The Clown. Or Bozo. I don’t cut the ribbon at the opening of markets. I don’t stand next to the mayor. Hit your baseball into my yard, and you’ll never see it again.

One of my philosophies is that citizens are the mayor… so we have citizens play an integral role in making policies and implementing them.

I know I’m not going to be working with the WWE forever. That’s why I’m going to be the Mayor of the city of Houston, so I can move on to the next stage of my life.

My fight isn’t with Charlie Hales. My fight is with the problems he has failed to address as mayor.

Well I happen to be a Republican mayor.

No one should walk into a party and have a stamp that says ‘mayor’ or ‘businessman’ on their head. Everyone is just there to have a good time.

There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayor’s office.

When residents elect a mayor, they expect the mayor to be able to solve their problems. They expect, when they go see the mayor, the mayor to be able to take care of things. But what they don’t understand is that the mayor is not in charge.

What dragged me down was not being mayor – it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That’s what brought me down.

I was beaten by police and sat in their precinct holding cell, certain that my future was already decided. And now I will be the person in charge of that precinct, and every other precinct, because I’m going to be the mayor of the City of New York.

It’s true that not every day a little black girl in a low-income family from a segregated steel town makes the runoff to be the mayor of the third-largest city in America.

Throughout his career, Bloomberg has repeatedly shown blatant disrespect for individual rights and civil liberties. The first thing that comes to mind is probably the way he tried to micromanage New Yorkers’ food choices during his time as mayor.

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

I was once made honorary mayor of my hometown of Newark, Del.

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city – for one Chicago.

If we don’t get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It’s time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in ’77 in the general election. In ’81 I got 75%. In ’85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.

I think our communication strategy has been very disciplined as being a back-to-basics mayor and about focusing on making City Hall work and jumpstarting our economy.

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

I’ve been mayor of the city of Jerusalem, which is perhaps, in some ways, more complex and more difficult than a ministerial position.

If I was Mayor of London, I would take the congestion charge off. I’d keep the bike lanes. And buses free on a Thursday.

I just want to do a good job as mayor.

I don’t want to be the mayor of New Jersey.

I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas.

Millions of wrestling fans know me as Johnny Mundo, the mayor of Slamtown.

As mayor of Milwaukee, I’ve had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for financial assistance from the city, and my questions have always been: how many jobs are we talking about and are these family-supporting jobs.

One of my personal theories of ‘The Mayor’ is that I feel like the show arrived on the scene at a time when people were feeling a little bit fatigued about anything that had to do with politics.

As mayor, I’m in the frying pan. I’m just sitting here on the griddle now, and I’ve got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?

I am so proud to be the Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania – a storied steel town I like to say built half the world.

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.

They can’t take your house and give it to the mayor’s mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on.

For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.

I honestly think Derek Jeter could run for mayor in New York, and if not win, get really close, just the way he handled himself.

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Having been a mayor, we prioritized based on where we want our city and our country to go.

I’ve been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I’m privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

I was running for mayor of Syracuse – the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term ‘conservation’ was hardly on the tip of every citizen’s tongue.

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school – first grade – to when I went away to college.

I did not defund the police as mayor. I increased the budget. If we want the best and brightest men and women to protect us, we better darn well give them the tools, the training, and the support necessary to be successful.

As mayor, I’ve traveled to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico to meet with heads of state and business leaders to promote trade with L.A. companies and through L.A.’s seaports and airports – because that generates L.A. jobs.

But despite the challenges, I love being your Mayor.

It’s easy to be the Mayor of Slamtown in the wrestling ring.

I wanted to finish my career with one team, in one city, one mayor, one park, one owner. I did that. The Wrigleys owned the team. We played all of our home games at Wrigley Field during the daytime. So my career was very unique, and I am proud of it.

The job of Seoul mayor is as important as that of president.

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can’t figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

I’m not going to become an MP and I’m not going to be London Mayor. I have no political ambitions.