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I wasn't sure whether I had the right City Council to handle it. But you do have the right Council here.


Bob Butler

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We had some council members who tried to do the right thing, but they had no voice.
IMA GRAHAM (The council had) every right to raise the issue.
ALDERMAN GALVIN (The council had) every right to raise the issue.
ALDERMAN SCOTT GALVIN I have thought in past years about running for City Council, but I always let the deadline pass me b...
CAROLYN KING Bob has done a good job as one vote on our City Council. But he's only one vote.
DON TOMLIN I think the City Council authorized the manager to do this and that this is the right way to go, ......
TONI ATKINS The first priority is to learn the functioning of the council, the way it is right now...learn how t...
DAN KANE [The City Council voted to accept the proposal in August, but Harrison vetoed its action. The City C...
KATHY HARRISON I was running a campaign as late as Wednesday. When I returned (to work) Wednesday, I was told I had...
HAMILTON OSBORNE I think we're doing exactly what the City Council has asked us to do.
LESLI ANDREWS I've been here, in the council, for eight years. I feel that I know what is going on in the city. I ...
HAROLD TAYLOR The city administrator works for the council, the council does not work for the city administrator.
FRANK FISHER I was out of town and did not attend the last council meeting, but according to our city ordinance, ...
JAMES ROBINSON If they think they can intimidate the City Council, they're sadly mistaken, ... We're going to do wh...
JAMES HARRINGTON up close when I was in the City Council.
ANTHONY WEINER What we've got here is an ordinance with a lot of loopholes. What we've got here is a City Council t...
PETER ANDERSEN It is high, but not unreasonable, ... We're bypassing the City Council. I just don't like doing that...
JOHN LEGG It was so outdated (City Council) couldn't hardly do anything. It keeps them more in tune with curre...
DON MOORE We had to get city council approval; they are the representatives of the public.
CARL DUKE I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.
ANATOLY CHUBAIS Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
KAREN KAIN We were disappointed in the city council but not surprised.
JEFF TURNER The procedure is that the committee makes its recommendation to the City Council and, of course, the...
DOMINIC CANDELORO In 1998 the new council brought stability into our municipal government. That's a very important thi...
BILL CHERTOK We are here to protest Britain's role in sending us to the U.N. Security Council. We must defend our...
MOHAMMAD ALI We presented that information to the city and the city's bond council and the bond council also deci...
BOB SEPE As an interim city manager, you kind of hold the line until a new city manager is hired. The council...
KEAN REGISTER This is a hard time for the city, a hard time for the council and a hard time for the mayor. I'd muc...
DAVID MANN I don't think we ever had before the Council discussion of the sewer cost of service study, you know...
DICK MURPHY That's not something the lawyers and police have to worry about. That's something the council will h...
TOM MORRISON Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has a...
JANE ALEXANDER In my opinion, the next council member should be Fran Black Holland. She had the next-highest votes....
HAROLD SMITH Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make m...
HORACE First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran f...
JULIAN CASTRO Can we prepare a proposal by September? Yes. But the issue is building a consensus, and making sure ...
RICHARD CONTI It's funny. When I started on council, I was the youngest person in the room, including the members ...
CURT GANTZ You would create bad blood between City Council and the School Board.
CHARLES MARTIN No, sir, that's been tried. Some city council members have already talked to him. I get just as frus...
JAMES WILSON (At that time) none of the city committees had women in them and no women were on the city council.
CONNIE ROGERS I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the m...
HAROLD H. GREENE I was astonished that five council people would put their opinions above the 7,000 people who voted ...
BOB DAY I have closed more liquor establishments than any council member in the history of that council.
COUNCILMAN MICHAEL POLENSEK We set some direction. It was a thorough and very candid analysis. I think it'll help City Council a...
HAMILTON OSBORNE Personally, I think everyone on the Lakeshore Committee breathed a sigh of relief once this project ...
JIM STACK You will face tough decisions. You will need the strong backing of the city council.
DR. ALAN SUGGS I would like to ask the council to respect my recommendations, ... If the council chooses to do othe...
JAMES PERKINS I've been hearing from people saying they see me more than they do their city council member.
GENE GREEN I would prefer to see it remain at two years. The two year term has been the law of city council.
LEIGH WOODALL That's pretty much the situation throughout the country.
MICHAEL RIGHT She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that rig...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The voters approved it and the City Council took it to heart and started adding officers.
CRAIG CLIFFORD The city has given us its blessings by allowing us to hold these seminars in the council chambers. T...
CASEY WILLIAMS I don't know if I'd say I would have been surprised to see us here right now. I knew we had it in us...
ANDREA NICHOLS If we can't get private investment, then I want to go to the City Council and ask them to buy it as ...
FRANK MELTON I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You cou...
DAVID ABERCROMBIE I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You cou...
DAVID ABERCROMBIE I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You cou...
DAVID ABERCROMBIE We're going to respond to the council in writing, retrace the history of the project in that respons...
DEWEY POTTER The City Council kind of looked a gift horse in the mouth. And now we're not sure if the horse has g...
ARI ADLER I was a member of the Haifa City Council when I was 23 years old, which made me the youngest city co...
AYMAN ODEH I think this resolution will make it crystal clear as to where (city council) stands, ... It's about...
CURTIS JENKINS I believe Corning is a progressive community and continues to progress under the City Council and th...
JAMES NELSON Luckily, we haven't had too many incidents. I'm sure the council will be discussing this again.
HAROLD DAVIS I'm opposed to the suggestion of changing city council in any way.
TED HICKS I feel some of the City Council has lost the concept that they are the employer and the city manager...
CHARLES PARR The Silver Companies joins you and members of City Council in your efforts to protect city-owned riv...
JUD HONAKER The Marine Aquarium Council really wants us to keep the coral and the fish safe. They are not saying...
ALEXANDER GOULD He had no coattails, so there's not a single member of the City Council who owes their election to h...
HOWARD WOLFSON I want things to change in The Nameless City. I want the people in the city to finally have some inf...
FAITH ERIN HICKS You are a separate branch of government. You don't rely on the city manager like other city councils...
GEORGE STEWART The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI This council, this mayor and the city manager has known about this project for almost to years. They...
ELIZABETH SCOTT I am not sure what the intentions of the town are on these issues. That is an area I will have to fi...
BILL WHITLEY It's already in the city council budget to build a new, higher building.
MAYOR DEL BRITTON This is our last year for sure, racing on Jeffers Street. Merchants started complaining to the city ...
JOE HINMAN I don't like the idea that you have to resign from your post to run (for city council). This rule ke...
JOEY HERALD For once this council has made the right decision, but it's about time they got their act together o...
HENRY MITCHELL I think sometimes there is no right thing.
ROSAMUND HODGE The timing had to be just right to bring a name like Bob Dylan on the network. You have to have a cr...
ERIC LOGAN I know they're upsetting a good part of the Toronto city council and I know they're upsetting the ma...
ANDREW FERGUSON In 1984, I invited members of the Virginia Landmarks Commission to my home on the night of a City Co...
CLARA LAMBETH I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide wh...
ROBERT POZEN He needs to remember he's always wearing a City Council hat.
CHARLES HOOKS I think it just got to the point where this was a priority for the City Council, the mayor and for t...
GINA GOBO Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined ...
CHANAKYA The police chief works directly for the city manager, who works for the city council, so there is a ...
JACK ANDERSON God once spoke through the mouth of an ass. I will tell you straight what I think. I am a Christian ...
MARTIN LUTHER But it's not a reflection on City Council, ... We have to put good people to work for the court. It'...
ANGEL FUENTES I challenge each member of the council to donate a month of their (council) salary to pay for the gi...
FRANK COCCHO I used to be on the Lincoln City Council. You learn that there's never enough money for all of t...
JEFF FORTENBERRY Being involved is the first good step toward running for the city council.
BARBARA HOPPE I'm 63 years old and I have no higher political aspiration than the Oldsmar City Council. This is no...
JANICE MILLER It is one of the big, hairy unknowns _ what you do about that federal-state relationship. I'm not su...
RHETT DAWSON Obviously I was disappointed the City Council didn't enact (the El Paso ordinance). We came close. W...
DR. ROBERT VOGEL Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the coun...
JACK KELLEY It shouldn't be intimidating because the (City Council) puts their pants on just like everybody else...
JACK SPIKER We have to have a mayor and a council who will take City Hall and fight that fight.
CORY BOOKER Problems and delays in the implementation of Hansen 8 have become a significant concern in the city ...
DARRELL SMITH Cool,” I said. “You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your...
RICHELLE MEAD I personally believe, as I think a lot of security Council members believe with 100% certainty, that...
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SAMUEL BUTLER To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER