Mayor's Role Quotes

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

As the mayor of London, my highest priority is keeping Londoners and visitors to our city safe from harm.

Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.

New Yorkers have real issues, and they deserve to have a mayor that is prepared to work with them to solve the challenges they have, reduce the problems that they have, and they deserve to have a mayor's race that is focused on them.

The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.

I am running to be the 50th mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government is accountable to its people and is aggressively innovative in how it identifies and solves its problems.

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

Bill de Blasio, for his part, became the mayor of New York, surely the most powerful local political position in the nation, and arguably - after Giuliani and Bloomberg - one with a national base, one with, practically speaking, no job at all. He went from marginal political flotsam and jetsam to extraordinary centrality within a few months time.

The truth is a mayor can actually do very little to alter the course of a huge city run by the free market that is home to banking - the engine room of capitalism.

I have my own vision to lead the Seoul City, but whether or not I can display it totally depends on the citizens.

As mayor I don't intend to be just a voice for Portland. I intend to be a voice for urban America.

As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.

As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.