If you run for mayor, people say you’re being egotistical. If you decide you won’t run for mayor, people say you’re being self-centered and egotistical.
I’ve been a city councilman and mayor. I’ve been a lieutenant governor and governor and now, in the Senate, serve on the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee. So I’m a utility player. I just want to do everything I can to make sure A) we win and that B) the presidency of Hillary Clinton is fantastic.
My mother, she worked in the mayor’s office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.
I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He’s a bully who wants to micro-manage people’s lives by mandate, not persuasion.
Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.
Racial politics in Chicago has a long history of being intertwined with the mayor’s race, but I’d like to think we’re past much of that.
Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with a record of delivering for them, of vision, and a level of maturity and responsibility.
As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.
I was director of governmental affairs at the Cleveland school district. I served in the administration of Mayor Michael R. White.
If I were mayor, I’d invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I’d let the elderly in residential homes wander free.
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.
If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let’s get on with it.
Obviously as a mayor, I’m in competition with my neighboring cities as well as cities around the country.
As mayor, I’m charged with a big-picture agenda.
I’ve had the honour of being elected as a Labour councillor, MP and mayor, thanks to the hard work of Labour members, and I believe that the will of our membership should be respected.
Well, I’ve worked with Republican presidents, obviously, and Democratic presidents since I’ve had the privilege to remain as mayor.
You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what’s onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a small town filled with noble creatures who have to get out there and make it brand new every night. When a production works, it’s unlike any other joy in the world.
If people are expecting the mayor of Portland to solve the problem of homelessness they’re going to be sorely disappointed and that’s just the truth.
