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Mayors Quotes

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.373, Best Books on

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

Robert Burton, William H. Gass (2001). “The Anatomy of Melancholy”, NYRB Classics

If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it.

"Dellums is behaving exactly as he said he would when campaigning" by John Wildermuth, www.sfgate.com. January 6, 2008.

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure.

Speech to the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce (12 January 1938), as quoted in "The Last Three Miles : Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway" by Steven Hart, (p. 137), 2007.

I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

"Jeffrey Archer" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 1999.