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Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
Jane Byrne
Tags: Am I Am City
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If you will come back and make that pledge, God will heal your heart tonight.


Benny Hinn
Tags: God You Your
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The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.


John Hickenlooper
Tags: People Thing Most
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I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.


Joseph J. Lhota
Tags: New York New York
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A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.


John Hickenlooper
Tags: Public Face City
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Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.


Nelson Algren
Tags: Even Sort City
I've been mayor of the city of Jerusalem, which is perhaps, in some ways, more complex and more difficult than a ministerial position.
Ehud Olmert
Tags: More Been Than
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Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.


Dave Grohl
Tags: Music Me More
We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.
Carolyn Maloney
Tags: Great Who How
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.


Frank Lloyd Wright
As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.
Gavin Newsom
Tags: Work Our Will
I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.
Allison Tolman
Tags: Work Out Go
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Chicago seems to follow New York, and coming from New York and being in real estate, I worry about things happening in Chicago that have happened in New York. I've seen a great city like New York go downhill. It has a wonderful financial downtown, but the rest of the city is not very nice.
Jerry Reinsdorf
Tags: Great Like About
I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Tags: Work You Really
Juarez had become a failed city. The mayor of Juarez lived in El Paso. Not only did he not live in his own city, he didn't live in his own country. You had all these kids out of school who didn't want to work because they saw their mothers toiling in jobs for hardly any cash.
Beto O'Rourke
Tags: Work You Who
The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.
Gary Krist
Tags: Money More Up
Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.
Rahm Emanuel
Tags: Know Been Between
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People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.


Bess Myerson
Tags: People Want Lose
I strongly believe being mayor is the public post in which you have the greatest opportunity to change peoples' lives for the better. People live in cities, not states or nations. As a mayor, you are connected directly to citizens.
Eduardo Paes
Tags: Change You People