Michael Nutter Quotes
Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'
Michael Nutter
American politician
Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.
Michael Nutter
American politician
Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another African-American.
Michael Nutter
American politician
There is no Democratic or Republican way to fill a pothole.
Michael Nutter
American politician
Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.
Michael Nutter
American politician
I got elected as the mayor of Philadelphia and yes I am black. But my responsibility is to all the citizens of the city.
Michael Nutter
American politician
Yes we need enhanced border control. Yes we need to focus our efforts on those who pose a threat to our country. But let's not fall into the trap set by the Tea Party and others who would tell you that every single undocumented individual is a drug smuggler, a terrorist, or a threat to the American way of life. That is simply not true.
Michael Nutter
American politician
I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.
Michael Nutter
American politician
We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.
Michael Nutter
American politician
I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.
Michael Nutter
American politician
There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.
Michael Nutter
American politician
For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don't attack someone's family.
Michael Nutter
American politician
We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.
Michael Nutter
American politician
I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.
Michael Nutter
American politician
If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.
Michael Nutter
American politician
Parents who neglect their children, who don't know where they are, who don't know what they're doing, who don't know who they're hanging out with, you're gonna find yourselves spending some quality time with your kids, in jail, together.
Michael Nutter
American politician
You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.
Michael Nutter
American politician
A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.
Michael Nutter
American politician
I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.
Michael Nutter
American politician
Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.
Michael Nutter
American politician
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