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

The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.

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.

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.

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.

I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.

I love mayors.