City Council Quotes
Real words from the frontlines of local government.
These city council quotes come from candidates and elected officials describing what it actually takes to win a seat and serve a community, echoing races decided by only a handful of votes. See more civic reflections in our Commissioner quotes.
I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.
If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
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Mayors, city council members, and legislators come and go, but neighborhoods don't go anywhere.
As the documentary 'True Son' illustrates, my campaign for city council started really small - with eight mostly political neophytes in my living room and with young people knocking on doors.
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There had to be something more important than me being comfortable, me being OK, and me being that one person that made it from Stockton. That's why I decided to run for city council in 2012.
Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.
Things will only improve when the people - all of us - say to authorities, 'I will hold you responsible.' We should all be showing up at city council meetings, lighting up every community with activism and mobilization.
I was the first girl in my high school to be chosen as head girl of both my school and my hoste. I was also elected as the Deputy Junior Mayor of the George City Council in grade 11.
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.
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I was a member of the Haifa City Council when I was 23 years old, which made me the youngest city councilman in Israel.
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Some entries recall grassroots campaigns that began with just a handful of volunteers, while others push for real accountability once in office. For related local voices, visit our City quotes.
