My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.
"Carl Burton Stokes" was an United States of America/American politician of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic party who served as the 51st List of Mayors of Cleveland, Ohio/mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, but taking office on January 1, 1968, he was the first black mayor of a major United States/U.S. city (although he was elected after Richard G. Hatcher). Fellow Ohioan Robert C. Henry was the first black mayor of any U.S. city (Springfield, elected 1966).
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous politicians! More Carl Stokes on Wikipedia.What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could do things that no civil rights march ever did.
Despite the litany of the sorrows of the city, we must believe in the ability of man to respond to the problems of his environment.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure.
It's really about schools and education. It really is about being America's safest city. I think that race is always bubbling somewhere and sometimes it does surface, but I don't think that the majority of the voters are going to pick a mayor or a candidate based solely on race.
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