I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.
Sarah Palin

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

I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.
Anthony A. Williams

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.
Jane Byrne

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
Harold Washington

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
William Petersen

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.
Henry Cisneros

I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
Rahm Emanuel

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
Fidel Castro

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.
Geraldo Rivera

I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.
David Dinkins

I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.
Jeffrey Archer

I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back.
Richard M. Daley

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

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.
Jane Birkin

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

If Ted Williams just tip his cap once he could be elected Mayor of Boston in five minutes.
Eddie Collins

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

In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.
Conan O'Brien