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If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

— Matt Gonzalez

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.

— Ed Koch

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

— John Hickenlooper

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.

— Clint Eastwood

The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that.

— Cory Booker

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

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

— John Hickenlooper

✗Opposing Perspectives

You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.

— Matt Gonzalez

To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.

— Rahm Emanuel

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

The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

— Lamar Alexander