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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.

But despite the challenges, I love being your Mayor.

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

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

As mayor, I used to always feel the important thing is that people respect me, not love me - but it is really much nicer when they love you, too. I'm going to try to keep it that way.

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.

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

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

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.