Mayor Quotes

Ed Koch

Ken Livingstone

David Dinkins

Philip Hone

Sila María Calderón

Frank Hague

Louis Brownlow

I have never felt like a second-class citizen. I consider myself a U.S. citizen. I appreciate and treasure my U.S. citizenship. I would never renounce or consider losing that citizenship. I want my children and their children to always have it.

Sila María Calderón

Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never hear a real American talk like that.

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

Ken Livingstone

[...] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.

If there's a lesson to be taken from Braddock, it's that no community deserves to be abandoned. No community deserves to be left behind. And it can always get better. And in fact there's a moral obligation that it should.

Sowe Carrets in your Gardens, and humbly praise God for them, as for a singular and great blessing.

Richard Gardiner

By and by we shall have balloons and pass over to Europe between sun and sun. Oh, for the good old days of heavy post-coaches and speed at the rate of six miles an hour!

In 1789, for the first time, at least in modern history and in the western world, there was set up an executive who was at one and the same time the chief of state, the leader of the legislature, the leader of a political party, the commander in chief of the military forces of the nation, and toe executive manager of the government.

The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.

Advertising is an instrument in the hands of the people who use it. If evil men use advertising for base purposes, then evil can result. If honest men use advertising to sell an honest product with honest enthusiasm, then positive good for our kind of capitalistic society can result.

John W. Crawford

We are all foot soldiers on the march to freedom.

Our Democratic Party is not an end; it is a means to an end. The end is a greater America— where individual worth is valued and no person is left out; where every vote counts; and where "inclusion" is not a catchword, but is a passion.

Maynard Jackson