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This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

We need leadership, and we need it now.

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

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

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

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

To succeed in big-city politics requires a powerful, motivating vision of a better world, a plan to get there, a willingness to meet constituents on their terms, and a tough political skin.

I think I can bring tremendous leadership.