Mayor Quotations | Page 5

I'm not sure who is going to win, but I served with Hubert Humphrey, I served with Walter Mondale -- both very liberal senators, both fine people ... But I also think the world of Mayor Coleman, and I suspect that it's going to still be a race right down to the wire,

I'll be a student from 7:50 to 2:30, and then I'll work on mayor stuff from 3 to 6.

I'll be a student from 7:50 to 2:30, and then I'll work on mayor stuff from 3:00 to 6:00,

I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.

I'm convinced and quite comfortable with my decision to stay on the board and deal with any public attacks the mayor and city attorney want to throw at us.

If there is one person in the United States of America who can handle that pressure and rise to the challenge, and in fact may even be spurred on by that pressure, it's Mayor Giuliani, ... Meet the Press.

If the people of Louisiana are lucky, both the governor and the mayor will appoint personal representatives who will work with one another, ... In other words, they can get the bad blood out of the room by delegating it away.

I personally do not believe the monorail is the right approach because it will potentially divert attention and resources and not solve our critical transportation safety issues, ... Today, the mayor placed this issue exactly where it belongs: in front of the people.

If you feel that strongly that we can get better candidates from California, let's get our next mayor or our next commissioner from there.

If you are running for mayor of the city of New Orleans, you must have a plan to get us through the worst crisis in our history.

If you look at the polls, you'd have to say, the mayor is likely to win. I don't believe in polls, but a lot of Democrats are saying, 'It's over.' I know Freddy is not saying that, and I'm not saying that. You just have to hold out hope.

If you look at what the FBI actually said, all of the things we reported were confirmed, and in fact they found additional individuals that we had not found who were in communication with the mayor and offered positions within the administration.

Interestingly, the Istanbul bid did not begin with the Turkish government or the mayor of Istanbul, but by groups of publicly spirited citizens.

Instead of helping his cause, Mayor Newsom has set back the same-sex marriage agenda and laid the foundation for the pro-marriage movement to once and for all win this battle to preserve traditional marriage.

In no way, shape or fashion do we want to exclude the mayor. This is not our money we are dealing with. It is the people's money. The mayor is the people's elected representative and we can use any input he makes.

I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate - me - who has the longest record of delivering for them. They want a mayor who can deliver for them. And I'm the only one - I don't care who gets in - who has that record.

I know Francis. He is well qualified to serve on the planning board. If we reject the appointment, the mayor can resubmit it and by then we can determine if there is a conflict of interest.

I know Huntington and people like the kid mayor and Don (Maynard) the police man. I know Don and his wife and kids, and he was promoting our shows when we were nothing. And there's people like that in so many towns that have been so good to you.

In this election and others, ... Billings has been plagued by the rumor that his credentials ('studying engineering and business at BYU' and being close to graduation) are distorted or even falsified. I challenge the mayor to come clean: Produce a BYU transcript. . . .

I hope that in a post-9/11, post-Katrina world, there wouldn't be a mayor in the nation who wouldn't go back to the drawing board and say, 'What have I done in terms of communication systems?'

I have to make sure we have good communications with the mayor and city solicitor, ... These are the things we need to stay on top of.

In the transit strike and even before that, he's come across as a feisty fighter, a real mayor of the people.

In the Cabinet, he's done really well. . . . The mayor is committed to diversity throughout all ranks of city government.

In terms of scorekeeping, I think the mayor did well. He was firm, feisty, aggressive, and he showed a side of him that New Yorkers might want to see more of.

If the mayor is representing an independent constituency, he may be representing less than 10 people in the city,

If there was a federal election I was going to consider running for mayor because a lot of people were asking me. I said if there was an election prior to November I would likely do that. I would seriously consider it at that point,

I just try to do what the mayor asks. I feel confident airline travel is safe and New York is safe.

Being mayor doesn't give her the authority to violate the Constitution or suspend it. Anyone has the right to attend a meeting of government bodies as provided by state law and directly by the Constitution. She is simply a mayor, and there are limits to her powers. I'd have her point to the law that gives her the authority to prevent colleagues from attending public meetings.

His decision seemed to leave John Spencer, a former mayor of Yonkers, as the party's most likely challenger.

How can the Mayor expect people to leave their cars at home when bus and Tube tickets are spiralling out of control?

I don't know how this all folds into what's going on between the mayor and the president. And where does the governor fit into all this?

I don't know how the mayor can send bills to Lakeview and expect them to get paid,

I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.

Because of enormous public importance of the upcoming mayoral election, the Department of Justice should release all information concerning the issue related to the bugging of Mayor Street's office, so long as no potential defendant's rights are compromised and no harm will come to any pending investigation.

Certainly the message was directed at African-Americans both inside and outside New Orleans. It's a political message that he intends to be the mayor of a majority black city. But the statement that God intended New Orleans to be majority black certainly could be interpreted as inflammatory by non-black voters.

Chief holds his department personnel to the highest standard and he and the mayor (Martin Chavez) have zero tolerance of a violation such as this of public trust.

By proclaiming October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Crossville and Cumberland County, Mayor Graham and Mayor Hill join the national effort to raise awareness about the prevalence of domestic violence in our community and ensure that support and services are available for all victims of abuse. These proclamations recognize that it takes the entire community to end domestic violence,

He thinks that it's not proper for the mayor to be seen viewing a game from the city box.

He's looking at a race for a mayor and he has not made a final decision.

He said I was a communicator, and he gave me a car to travel around selling Jet magazine to stores. Where Mayor Daley saw a toll collector, Mr. Johnson saw a communicator.

Generally speaking, the mayor is trying to get land use and TIF approvals to come before the full Common Council at the same meeting, so they can get considered in tandem. This is part of the TIF reform package that he supports.

I feel like Mayor Dill should be giving this proclamation,

I can't vote for something that's going to give the mayor that kind of power.

I can understand if the mayor wants to give up takeout Chinese food, but if he wants real food, he should come here.

I don't think the citizens of Columbia will vote for a strong mayor form of government. I think they're satisfied with the council and manager form that we have now.

I don't see any point in tabling the action. My impression is there are three council members who are opposed to the idea of giving the honorary name of Jim Kelly Way to Mason Road. To continue the hearing because they don't want the idea of honoring Jim Kelly to go away is not the right action to take. If they want to pursue the idea of naming something after Jim Kelly, then the other option should be pursued, but not through this proposal ... I understand Mayor Mike Edwards would consider tabling it to wait to see how Sunrise West's subdivision is finally platted, but if there are three people who are opposed to it, then there should be no reason to table it.

I don't think he's going to lose by 38 points, but 20 to 25 percent is certainly within the realm of possibility. You have a mayor with a good record and unlimited resources, which we haven't seen before.

I asked him if he was going to do the bidding of the mayor and I was pretty satisfied with his answer, which was, 'No, I'm my own man,' ... One thing that's impressed me is he's done a lot of doorbelling and had conversations with people and he said he was very moved by some of their stories. That means something to me.

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.

He really acted like he was coming in to talk with a group of people he had known all his life. It has been a pleasure and an honor to be elected as mayor of Picayune over the years, but I believe one of the highest honors I have received is that I got to be introduced to the president of the United States,

For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.

You couldn't ask for somebody to do more in Washington than the mayor does . . . I think the mayor has done a good job. I make no bones about that.

The truth is black people died, not because of President Bush or racism, they died because of their unhealthy dependence on the government and the incompetence of Mayor Ray Nagin and Governor Kathleen Blanco,

This is not about any one individual. It's about making sure that, whether it's a mayor or judge or legislator or constitutional officer, preferential treatment should never enter the realm of law enforcement.

This is a gross injustice. Boca Raton is one of the best-run cities in Florida and yet our mayor and council members are the lowest-paid in the region. We should put this issue on the ballot because this is the right thing to do.

This is a hard time for the city, a hard time for the council and a hard time for the mayor. I'd much rather be mayor when I was than right now.

The charge that liberal candidates don't connect with or understand the values and beliefs of regular Americans is embedded in old epithets like 'limousine liberal,' which I first heard aimed at New York Mayor John Lindsay in 1969.

The Hebrew custom was that when a husband died the brother stepped in and took care of the family. Mayor Carl Officer has done that for us. He was a brother to my husband and now he is a brother to me.

The Dixie was a place where everyone went, all levels of society. You could see the town mayor sitting next to the town drunk, ... It's really the passing of a landmark.

All we're asking is that the mayor not allow this to happen . . . and allow us to enjoy our peaceful, quiet subdivision.

The courthouse did command everyone's time among the staff. It took a little more time than what we wished for, but you could say the project was fatally flawed from the beginning. It took some time, but the mayor was able to work on other initiatives, and I think him pulling the plug on the project will have its place in history.

The city is trying to build a town center in an area that is becoming rundown and looking blighted, ... The mayor and City Council are trying to be proactive and not reactive to all the growth we've had. We're trying to stay ahead of it.

The city fought a $300 million, 18-year war on graffiti. New York Mayor John Lindsay declared war in 1972, and the battle for the transit system came later.

The director's testimony on behalf of the mayor offers us a magnificent 16 cent reduction in our residential property tax rate. That's just about to me and the people I'm speaking on behalf of an insult.

All the effort that people have put forward, all the visits from strangers and the mayor and governor, that right there is what's keeping our heads up.

The mayor won't listen to citizens. So we seem to be left with nothing but the process of recall.

The mayor will be listening to them ... to see if anything they have to say is acceptable.

The mayor was very supportive. He said Algiers is fine and encouraged and supported us in opening schools. We said we'd target November, and he's OK with that.

The mayor was out with work crews last night and saw no damaged homes,

The mayor was devastated. He knew his city was damaged beyond what they'd realized. There were women in the room crying. It was a very emotional meeting.

The mayor wants to make it known that he's proceeding in his efforts to advance his policy goals. Creating a committee is the first step to advancing the goals either by legislation or through the ballot.

The mayor views this as an opportunity to take a comprehensive view of our Police Department. there are a lot of things to look at. The mayor is looking for a public servant whose integrity and impartiality are beyond reproach.

The mayor took his pain early on. Tax increases were substantial and hurtful, but they hurt early on, and he had time to recover.

The mayor told the petitioners we won't come back on the north side. He was trying to smooth the waters and spoke too soon, and got into a jam.

The mayor showed his commitment to ensuring the immigrant community access to city services without fear by signing E.O. 41 two years ago. Since that time, city agencies have taken care to comply with the order, and there is not a single documented case of it being violated.

The mayor should be concentrating on bringing businesses into the village,

The mayor plans on meeting with them and introducing a piece of legislation.

The mayor ordered an evacuation for a very good reason,

The mayor opened the door for people to speak out. The mayor did the right thing. He brought a higher profile to this matter. I really admire what he did.

The mayor of San Antonio doesn't control the future of the Saints.

The mayor looks forward to working with the group.

The mayor looks forward to receiving input from neighborhood council members during the selection process.

The mayor lobbied me. From our discussions, I knew that going into the compromise was very important to the mayor. He made that clear.

The mayor kept sending us back to the drawing board and saying, 'There must be a better way to do it.' The summation of all that groundwork is ... we're pulling the idea of a downtown special service area,

The mayor just offered to make it work if that's what they want to do.

The mayor just doesn't get it, so he doesn't have to do anything about it.

The mayor is very strong on the fact that you handle the remains with dignity and respect, especially considering the celebration of life that we have in New Orleans.

The mayor is on record as saying that the city needs a new multi-purpose arena. He supports it. He hasn't changed his mind.

The mayor is gratified by this public support as he launches an ambitious agenda in a second term to put the city on track for long-term stability and growth, fight for state funds to build new schools, and tackle intractable problems like poverty, AIDS, and diabetes.

The mayor is glad it's over. He knew on election night that he won. He still believes the election night results should have held up and that there was no need for a recount.

The mayor is frustrated that in every test we continually come up with sirens that don't work. Rather than put good money after bad, we should put in a new system.

The mayor is expected to discuss where we before the storm, and what we have done since the storm, and will be unveiling an initiative for the long-term recovery.

The mayor is anti-Semitic and we know that in London.

The mayor is absolutely relieved justice has been done. He was horrified by the testimony.

The mayor is a big piece of the puzzle. Whatever direction he goes in there are going to be different opportunities available.

The mayor has taken us through a series of fiascos with the takeover of private bus lines. The city is down to half as many running buses as we had a few years back and riders are forced to wait twice as long for service.

The mayor has taken a tremendous step forward and it is clear he is doing everything possible to get the new ballpark done. We appreciate his efforts.

The mayor has said we want to make sure we have valued it correctly. We have made a commitment to Mr. Patel and his attorney that once we have completed that appraisal process, we will present it to them and have a dialogue before we make any move.

The mayor has reached out to every community, every ethnic group and every New Yorker.

The mayor has let her rage, her distaste for Ray Hunt, cloud her vision. We have a mayor who thinks she can make unilateral decisions that she cannot. This is not a monarchy.