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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.

Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.

I love mayors.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.

I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.