Mayors Quotes

“Yet even now he looked on his days as mayor -- not governor or lieutenant governor or baseball team owner or naval aviator -- as the best job he'd ever had.”
― Pete Buttigieg, Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

“The problem about government and its employees . It is that they all work like they are doing people favors and is not their job to serve people. They want people to beg them and to pay them to do what they are employed to do. That is why it is easy for them to do corruption than to do what they are employed to do.”
― De Philosopher DJ Kyos

“Greed corrupts the mind and a corrupted mind has no remorse, sympathy , love or respect for other humans. It only has love for money.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.”
― Jean Drapeau

“I asked [Selma mayor Joe] Smitherman about his own attitude toward the Confederacy. He responded by telling me about his childhood in the Depression, as the son of sharecroppers. "We were dirt poor," he said. "My father died when I was a few months old and my mother raised the six of us on welfare. For us, the Civil War was pride. It was all we had to hold onto. The rich whites, they had ancestors who were colonel this or general that. But we didn't know anything about that. It was just pride in having once been something.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War