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No sitting mayor and no sitting council member should adopt an ordinance that provides a competitive advantage to a competing business in an adjacent city.

Patrick O'neill

I'm the elected sheriff, ... I serve the people. I don't serve the mayor. I don't serve some politicians.

Joe Arpaio

I'm battling a Republican mayor who has no vision of where he wants to take this city, doesn't have any new ideas.

Gifford Miller

I feel right now, here in Palatka, the average person really has no say-so. The commission, mayor and city manager basically run everything. They always say you can come forward with your ideas, but nobody really listens. I've become very frustrated.

Norman Peacock

The way you deal with us is not to bully and not to threaten, and the mayor is smart enough to know that. And the mayor is also smart enough to know that bullies end up getting bloody noses.

Joe Bruno

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

Todd Apo

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

Roger Evans

We would basically be dropping one council position. Most of the other cities in the county have a mayor who votes on issues.

Curtis Crews

A system with proper margin and maintenance should not have this bad luck. The mayor is absolutely right. I'm at least as angry as he is.

John W. Rowe

I like Chicago and Mayor Daley, ... But I love Atlanta. And, in this case, we are the big fish.

Shirley Franklin

I like the mayor, but it doesn't mean I'll endorse his candidacy, ... fine Democratic nominee.

David N. Dinkins

My immediate reaction is that Charles Box was a fine mayor and represents a very good appointment on the part of the governor. I hope he brings an impartial, collaborative approach to this new role.

Doug Whitley

The mayor wants to take credit for the auto mall but he had to abstain and he's out negotiating and yet he's taking credit.

Phill Westbrooks

It's not so far-fetched that we could have a Latino mayor.

Roberto Martinez

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

Doug Muzzio

[The mayor] wants to put it under the cemetery board, which is basically an independent board. The council does not want it under the cemetery board.

Frank Fisher

You served the people shamefully. The people thought they were electing a mayor.

Harold A. Ackerman

We want to be able to go to the legislators, the mayor and the governor knowing that we did everything humanly possible to make it happen in the state of the Louisiana.

Paul Hoolahan

It was nice of the senator to endorse many of the concepts the mayor came out with last week.

Greg Bortolin

I need [the mayor] to give us the permits.

James Dolan

I am confident that, by now, you understand many of the consequences that spring from an invitation having been extended to former Mayor Giuliani.

William Keeler

Obviously, he said he would look forward to his support. The mayor is very thrilled with the bipartisan support.

Janelle Erickson

Quite honestly, it takes a mayor a lot of guts to sit down and do this kind of show. But it's the old get-out-of-the-kitchen-if-you- can't-take-the-heat kind of thing.

John Forsythe

We have made an exception, that in case of an emergency, the mayor may sign off on the purchase order.

Katina Whitledge

We've had conversations with the mayor for a room for veterans to meet and it's been very positive.

John Boland

[Mayor Ortega said,] Nobody here is against the dispatch center. ... We've whittled it down.

Carlos Montoya

Mayor Bloomberg has been a great supporter of the Republican Party and, more than that, he's been a great leader for New York City.

Ryan Moses

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.

Dick Murphy

You'll be the first kids on your block with an Anthony Weiner for mayor sticker. Would you like one sir?

Anthony Weiner

We've heard from caterers with concerns. [The mayor and council] are concerned that not all the caterers in town have been fully briefed or fully understand it.

Michael Zuzel

Mayor Bloomberg gave the teachers the largest raise in history and is optimistic that we can agree to another one.

Jordan Barowitz

I was appointed to read the correspondence. We'd get letters about feral cats, potholes ... all of the above. Sometimes we'd get 10 to 15 letters about feral cats, so the mayor would ask me to summarize.

Bob Blayney

We need to demonstrate to our town leaders, mayor and council that this has serious support.

Charles Andrews

I feel like Mayor Dill should be giving this proclamation.

Scott Ross

There's a sense Jan will stand up to the mayor when she disagrees.

George Griffin

Luckily, he missed, so I shot the mayor and withdrew.

Robert Maxwell

On my watch we are not going to have what we had when Mayor Lindsay was mayor.

Barry Feinstein

So if something went wrong with a project, the mayor would step forward, explain what went wrong and be accountable for it. We don't really have that now.

Patton Adams

What would be nice would be if the mayor would do the right thing and resign, ... If he had any character whatsoever that's what he'd do.

Jerry Davis

What I like best is that we're including every member of the council, the mayor and the city attorney. No one person has capitalized on the process.

Councilman Van Pearlberg

There is not anyone running for mayor who is not a close personal friend of mine.

Bob Stevenson

I think there's a difference between the current mayor and myself. I believe in having a plan. I think everyone needs to know what the plan is.

Pat Gerard

How can it be that in a city with an annual budget of over $55 billion that the lives of firefighters and the citizens we are sworn to protect depends on apparatus built in the 1980s, when Ed Koch was mayor?

Stephen Cassidy

Mayor Wynn is not alone in his silence and backroom dealings as this irreversible train-wreck happens. This silence from City Hall is deafening.

Bill Bunch

I'm sure the mayor is not going to shed any tears over this.

Lenora Fulani

What we're going to say to the mayor is that this is way beyond your capacity to control or you're incompetent.

Frank Marra

That is more than the mayor makes.

Jerome Williams

The next mayor is going to determine the future.

Frank Jackson

We view the decision as a clear victory against the Draconian policies of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Michael Warren

We're trying to find somebody who is really popular. We're trying to get maybe the mayor or even the governor or (U.S. Sen.) John McCain or somebody like that.

Jenny Wilkins

We should have a very strong mayor and a president of Council, ... The two functions, the legislative and the executive, should be more clearly defined.

David Crowley

The village is running smoothly and people are continuing to build relationships with one another, friendships across lines, ... mayor.

Jeffrey Brown

The mayor does seem to have failed, from the outset of this case, to have appreciated that his conduct was unacceptable.

David Laverick

But beyond economic development, I want to change the feeling this community has about our government. It's sad and it must be changed. It saddens me that the people of this community feel the way they do about us. That is the first thing I would try to accomplish as mayor.

Frank Coccho

I'm not complaining about Mayor Mark or even Estefan. Estefan is running around like a one-armed paper hanger. They're busy.

Andrew Brown

I think she should run for mayor. You know what I'm saying? We need a new change in Chicago.

John C. Collins

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

Councilwoman Sue Stenhouse

We will never have quotas in this city as long as I am mayor, but we will darn sure have goals.

Alan Autry

Mayor Honea, since the town clerk did not accept this, will you and the town accept this referendum?

David Morales

It's not a ceremonial or figurehead job as it is in cities that have a city manager. The mayor is responsible for the executive branch of government. So it's probably more important than it is in other cities in Montana.

Dan Kemmis

I believe the people of Ketchum deserve a mayor who brings a fresh perspective to the table and who is committed to bringing the community together.

Dan Stein

There is nothing about the budget that Nancy would not be able to speak intelligently on, ... Mayor [Lois] Frankel will not be able to dismiss former Mayor Graham in a legitimate debate on the finances of this project.

City Center

They?re very formal people and the mayor holds a very great place of honor in their eyes.

Priscilla Rubenzer

He was so supportive. The night I became mayor, he was there.

Paul Marigonda

It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.

Fred Powell

I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.

Marion Berry

We had some hot buttons we couldn't agree on. We gave the mayor too much power. The mayor would have veto power and sit on the council and vote. I was afraid that our city manager would feel like she was being micromanaged by the mayor.

James Richardson

Mayor Miller, you have a history of attacking appointed African-American representatives on boards and commissions.

Joyce Foreman

But if you're the mayor of Chicago, there is a political price to be paid for that.

Patrick Cotter

He's gonna be there until this thing turns around. He's showing the leadership a mayor should show.

Don Hutchinson

After he (the mayor) got off the phone he apologized to us.

Kevin Roy

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

Michael Sessions

The mayor believes that those meetings are about getting things done, not about political bickering.

Brian Fallon

We certainly appreciate our working relationship with the mayor and his office.

Andrew Arulanandam

I went out with the mayor. I'm adult, and that was my decision.

Jennifer Carpenter

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

John Meehan

Hemorrhaging of the Democratic base usually happens when the incumbent mayor is perceived as the winner.

George Arzt

It's hard to keep the infrastructure working during a time like that. People don't know what a hard time that is for a mayor.

Jim Jenkins

We both made some concessions, but ... this ... will get the thing at least where the mayor will appoint the membership and allow them to go out and function, ... It's not everything I would have liked to have had. Is it a step in the right direction? Yes.

Frank Mcneil

Just because I was mayor.

Jack Elliott

We've been trying get the mayor of Paris to come to San Francisco ever since we signed the accord. It's really just the anniversary that has finally allowed it.

Tom Horn

We're on hold until the mayor decides to change his vote, ... He just said he had some concerns and never elaborated.

Harold Harris

The neighbors had been asking the mayor to destroy the structures to erase the stigma already attached to the community.

Carlos Abesamis

The mayor has asked his Fire Commission to evaluate the recommendations made in the controller's audit and come up with a plan for implementing them and determining the feasibility of implementing them.

Joe Ramallo

We're absolutely delighted that Governor Perdue and Mayor Franklin see this effort as the true economic engine that we expect it to be. We just found a whole lot more horsepower to go after the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Mark Lazarus

I think it's totally irresponsible for me, the mayor or the governor to endorse any of these plans.

Dan Onorato

The mayor has already voiced her concerns with the premier.

Ian Neilson

I'd like to thank you for the presentation. You made it very, very clear. And I'd like to announce, I have no interest in running for mayor.

John Simmonds

The mayor is hard to reach. He's traveling from Greece to Germany.

Sharon Gang

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

Robert Moses

You don't usually find government bodies with 14 members and a mayor completely unanimous as far as a decision. But this is the first time we've had a decision where everyone is in agreement.

Joe Sosnowski

Mayor Littlefield chose not to keep him.

Steve Leach

A lot of that has changed, and we've told Mayor Longo and the aldermen that if we don't build (a marina) now, we'll never do it.

Chris Lagarde

Mayor Lee broke the tie, and not one person there was in favor of that.

Melissa Hill

See, we even got a triple A from the mayor.

Manal Fakhoury

There is a general consensus across the council that we're willing to give up some of the gates, and the mayor seems to be buying into it.

Bill Blaydes

We've been hearing from Mayor Giuliani, pretty much just play-by play, describing exactly what it was like at the World Trade Center that day.

Christie Coombs

Tonight we're presenting our package to the mayor and council. They can approve it tonight.

Rich Young

I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done, ... It's not where you've been but where you're going.

Marion Barry

If we win the World Series, I would quit baseball and run for mayor.

Ozzie Guillen

I think our meeting was excellent. The mayor was open to all types of ideas.

Ralph Falbo

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.

Norman Robinson

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

Vince Morris

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

Bill Long

I've kind of re-energized them. I'm hoping to re-energize the mayor and city managers because we all have to get together to make this thing happen. It's not going to me. It's not going to be our guys. It's not going to be only the city. Everybody that wants baseball in South Florida has to put it all together.

Jeffrey Loria

The [national] perception of the mayor is of being erratic.

Roger White

Our members last got a raise when Willie Brown was the mayor of San Francisco and Gray Davis was the governor of this state. The district, we believe, can do better.

Dennis Kelly

It would very much depend who is mayor. If I was mayor -- and I'm not running, by the way -- I would exempt everybody because I think there will be hardships. Others would give no waivers.

Carol Schwartz

Our mayor has had discussions with Southwest executives, and we told them we would be very interested in having Southwest's headquarters.

Scott Phelps

I found out the next day, after I'd gone public that I wasn't going to run, that the city manager probably wasn't coming back and so I decided to stay in the race. With Jared leaving and a new mayor coming in, I believed it could be a benefit for me to stay.

Kevin Porter

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?

Bill Hines

For the mayor to come out and make this statement, it's uncalled for.

Antonio Gonzalez

At least in principle, this answers a huge question that this mayor and City Council have had about planned communities.

Michael Zuzel

This is the first opportunity that we've had in three decades to have a white mayor in a majority African American city.

Brian Brox

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

Marty Mcomber

We set up a little chapel in our civic center. Our mayor officiates, and a member of the Inner Circle is on hand to witness. Sometimes Phil makes an appearance, too.

Michele Neal

We are too fat at the top. To hire people at salaries higher than the mayor doesn't set a good precedent.

Rose Ferlita

This was a case where the police chief and the mayor ran amok, and based upon the hysteria they created, they decided they could suspend the rules. We are asking for a declaration from the court that makes it clear to the chief that the rules really do apply.

Michael Rains

The mayor, the police department and the city deeply regret what occurred and extend their sympathies to the Diallo family.

Michael Cardozo

The blame for the current state of the fire services must fall squarely on the mayor.

Helen Zille

[De la Rua, the 62-year-old mayor of Buenos Aires, called it] a triumph for everybody ... congratulated me for winning.

Carlos Menem

The one who swings the biggest bat on this issue is the mayor.

Nick Pacheco

We were assured that that information would go to the mayor.

Chris Bertelli

We need to know and we need to know now whether the mayor is in or whether the mayor is out.

Jim Cavanaugh

The mayor and council will run the city just as we did prior to having a city manager, we'll move forward and everything will be just fine.

Mayor Bryan Puckette

Our mayor is a volunteer fireman, and our fire chief is a Lions member.

Mary Murphy

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

Joe Allen

It's amazing she got that out of the mayor without it even being recommended by the arbitrators' panel.

Sol Stern

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.

John Harrington

It's strange, because essentially, the smaller town's mayor just disappears.

Jacob Ray

The only illegal activity here that I am aware of is the mayor using city money to print and distribute.

Peter Mclaughlin

That will be evaluated by the mayor's education committee and by the mayor, moving forward.

Linwood Norman

The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

Lamar Alexander

If you're lesbian or gay, you have to be out of your mind to support Mike Bloomberg for mayor.

Christopher Lynn

This is something the mayor has been working on for two years.

Rep. Ralph Ayres

What they are after is attention. They want to cause conflict. They want to cause division. They want people to react to them. The mayor believes the best way to react is to turn our backs on them.

Randy Hannan

She's accused the mayor of really unconscionable acts. She can't expect not to have her own actions scrutinized.

Greg Bortolin

The City Council and the mayor, all them, are the ones who are responsible for this. So if anybody is costing the taxpayers, it's our elected officials that are costing them.

Jeanette Surratt

I don't expect anything in return. I have been giving for years. I was giving to Shirley before she became mayor.

Wayne Mason

Everybody knew Eddie and everyone called him that -- not mayor.

George Hunter

It's illegal for teachers to strike and counterproductive to raise it. Mayor Bloomberg gave the teachers the largest raise in history and is optimistic that we can agree to another one.

Jordan Barowitz

Not on my watch are we going to have what John Lindsay had when he was mayor.

Barry Feinstein

We still have Jet Blue and the mayor is in conversation with other airlines on a monthly basis to try and get them to look at Syracuse as a very profitable location to come to.

Anthony Mancuso

Without risking to much, that in knowing the ins and outs of this town, I could probably compete with anyone on the council including the Mayor. It's another normal campaign. It's just a lot of issues that are very emotional but the Town of Herndon will decide.

Jorge Rochac

I feel encouraged by our latest news of the steps the mayor is taking.

Jim Simpson

The mayor is satisfied with that assurance.

Caryn Kaufman

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

Stu Loeser

He knew he was going to run for mayor when he got that money. People who gave to the county party didn't give for that purpose.

Greg Harris

The mayor did the best he could. It's a very tough situation.

Ron Forman

The level of compensation hasn't been changed since 1984. Of the 15 nearest cities, our mayor and council are paid the least. That is a gross injustice.

David Segal

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

David N. Dinkins

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

Frank Moore Colby

The mayor has abused his power, the citizens of this city have to do something about that.

Michael Christopher

We drained Food Giant for the public safety people. The mayor commandeered the store.

Vincent Creel

The mayor should make an ordinance: The race goes on.

Jason Bodnar

I think what the mayor has been able to do since June is focus on the record, why they elected him in the first place.

Steve Mitchell

We'll do our best to address the needs within the revenues that we already have, and then the mayor and the council will have to decide.

David Manning

Andy understands. He supports the mayor.

Gene Ferguson

I proudly accept the nomination of the Democratic Party to be mayor.

Fernando Ferrer

I am the mayor whether they like it or not.

Paul Farris

I told him that if he ran (for governor) his bipartisan honeymoon as mayor would come to an end and partisanship would dominate quickly.

Floyd Ciruli

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

Chris Wilson

It's a popular way of making fun of the mayor. 'Did you make up your name?' The jokes grow old over time.

Richard Arellano

I don't believe the mayor would be that kind of an ingrate or a hypocrite.

Joe Bruno

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

Scott Phelps

The mayor and council are under a duty. They have a legal obligation to uphold the laws of the village.

Michelle Miller

Distant. He is the mayor of the city of Chicago. We don't go over to his house for dinner.

Mark Gyrion

Overall, Mayor Baptiste had done a great job as our mayor. I look forward to his reelection for four more years.

Ron Agor

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

Fred Sainz

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

Brian Coleman

I have authorized my attorney to file a lawsuit against the city of Patton Village and individually against Mayor Pro Tem Vikki Munoz.

Joe Schultea Jr

Gives me the assurance my daughter and other children will learn about this. You have not only the thanks of a mayor or a son but of everyone who will ever live here.

Bill Purcell

There are 2,400 workers out there. They can't all get to the mayor and ask questions.

Denis Finley

Mayor Nagin has blamed everyone else except himself.

Lee Peterson

This is something that is long overdue. And the mayor agrees with me. I just hope enough corporate sponsors step up.

Jim Rhodes

We must hold primary elections to choose the center-left candidate for mayor of Milan.

Dario Fo

I think the mayor and I are in agreement. He was, I'm sure, poking a little fun at Manchester.

Craig Coy

To totally ice out the mayor from redevelopment does not seem entirely appropriate to me.

Scott Peters

Our mayor, who was very busy last year learning how to be a mayor, this year actually took a wonderful leadership role, got into the budget with both feet.

Bryan Anderson

Anybody who's contemplating voting for him is not likely to vote for the current mayor.

Christopher Munger

We elected our mayor and aldermen to help us, not to hurt us in our pocketbooks, but that's just what they're doing, ... If they had to live off a retirement check of $806 a month like I do, they would have never raised it to $20.

Jerry Little

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.

Stephen Kaufman

It's like I have been telling people. Who can do you the most damage and the most good on a daily basis? George Bush or your town mayor?

Willie Brown

I'm the guy that asked Larry to run for mayor.

Jim Green

He is the only mayor that ever sent pink slips to cops.

Gregg Harris

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.

Geraldine A. Ferraro

One more example of this mayor being out of touch with the neighborhoods.

Chester Coach Scott Langerock

We are spending $189,000 to hire people to do what the mayor said he could do himself.

Scott Armstrong

The mayor should really stop drinking.

Charles Rangel

When our community is facing the most important issue in 20 years, you send that deputy mayor to go plant that tree and you go up to Frankfort to give leadership on this issue.

Kelly Downard

The last thing he would want (voters) to believe is he is the incumbent mayor. ... His whole theme is change.

Michael Coleman

The mayor fully respects what the DA needs to do.

David Vossbrink

Mayor Henderson has been real supportive of the park board and the parks department since he became mayor.

Clyde Freshour

We have invited Mayor (Nick) Valentine, and we hope he comes. This is a problem for everyone in the community.

Pablo Cruz

I think I can be a good mayor. I'm old enough where I should be a stabilizing influence.

Gene Smith

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.

Dan Riley

It is my opinion that most probably I will be getting a recommendation from my mayor pro tem (today).

David Gudgel

I know the mayor is really excited about the event. He couldn't make the first one but he plans to be there this time.

George Twigg

We're thrilled. It's one of the major economic development and education initiatives of the mayor.

Michael Keane

As our Downtown loops go, that is probably the busiest one. It would be a challenge, but certainly we would work with the mayor on this and see what we could do. It can be done.

Bob Grove