Quotes by Michael Nutter - Page 1

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Sports
Contact
Philadelphia
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Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Grows
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There is no Democratic or Republican way to fill a pothole.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Democratic
Republican
Fill
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I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Running
Challenging Status Quo
Challenging The Status Quo
Status Quo
Mayor
Quo
Status
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There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Civilians
No Reason
Reason
Weapons
Automatic
Civilian
Weapon
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You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Respect
Get
How
Give
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If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Locked
Locked Up
Butt
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Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Jackasses
Joyous
Pills
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Philadelphians are a gritty, tough people who will help you when you're down.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Gritty
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Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Love Change Long
Philly
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Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Cities
Doers
Mayors
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We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Jazz
Philadelphia
Our Music
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The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Computer
Passport
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I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
First Amendment
Firsts
Second Amendment
Supporter
Thinking
Amendment
Shot
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We need sensible gun safety measures. The federal government could do something about this; they could show up.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Federal Government
Gun
Safety
Sensible
Measures
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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 / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Citizens
Philadelphia
Responsibility
Elected
Mayor
Yes
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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 / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Pet
Adorable
Needs
Owning A Pet
Admired
Store
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[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Black
Folks
Kkk
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Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Believe
Ideas
Pursuit Of Happiness
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We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Assault
Assault Weapons
Magazines
Needs
Weapons
Background
Ban
Upgrade
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Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
New York
Atlanta
Chicago
Classroom
Connecticut
Philadelphia
Safe
Streets
York
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Vice President Biden is the real deal. He'll give it to you straight. He communicates in a way that I think connects with people at a real level.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Vice President
People Way Real
Connects
Real Deal
Vice
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Everyone felt comfortable with these guys and what their vision was, and when they said they want to keep the staff intact, that was very encouraging.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Guy
Vision
Want
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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 / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Down The Road
Eight
Hey
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I believe that people, regardless of their station in life, should be able to sit down at a table to a meal - inside away from the heat and cold, the rain and the snow.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Cold
Heat
Rain
Snow
Life Believe People
Meal
Regardless
Table
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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 / Mayor Of Philadelphia
African American
Assumption
People Support Who
Automatic
Mayor
Official
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I'm honored to serve as mayor of my hometown where our founders started America with three simple words: 'We, the people.' And when they said 'people' they didn't mean 'corporations.'
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Corporations
Founders
Hometown
Honored
Simple Words
Mayor
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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.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Constituents
Succeed
Willingness
Better World
Motivating
Requires
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The federal government... knows how to put a missile in someone's room half way around the world with technology. Why don't we use some of that technology to save some lives here in America?
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Federal Government
Technology Government World
Missile
Save
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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 / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Bounds
Understood
Attack
Generally
Rule
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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 / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Anger
Crosses
Versus
African
African Americans
Big Difference
Expressing
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All eyes, all attention at the federal level, are on al Qaeda and the war on terror. Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't last a day in parts of Philadelphia. I've got gangsters with .45s that would run them out of town.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Running
War
Eye
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In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Economic Development
Middle Class
Philadelphia
Poverty
Public Safety
Reduction
Safety
Tools
Innovate
Invent
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We all pay federal taxes that we send to Washington and it is not unusual that as Americans we would expect some federal investment in the cities and metro areas because we're the ones that are generating the economic activity.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Activity
Cities
Investment
Metro
Unusual
Economic Activity
Generating
Send
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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 / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Men
Believe
Critical
Debate
Election
Importance
Men And Women
Participating
Standing
Thinking
Voting
Good Men Women
Good Women Men
Political System
Rewarding
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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 / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Quality
Jail
Neglect
Quality Time
Spending
Gonna
Hanging
Parents
Time Together Children
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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 / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Growing Up
Responsibility
Sidewalk
Corner
Lesson
Philly
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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 / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Teacher
Father
Mold
Participating
Share
Young
Talk
Life Father Person
Child
Around
Life Teacher Father
Concerns
Downs
Fears
Guide
Helps
Shape
Ups
Young Person
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If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy!
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Crazy
Shoes
Tattoo
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You can't really escape the fact that more reasonable gun regulations and procedures need to be in place, a strengthening and tightening of the national background check system. I don't know why any civilian would ever be able to purchase an assault weapon or the parts that go with it.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Assault
Gun
Procedures
Reasonable
Strengthening
Background
Check
Civilian
Escape
Weapon
Purchase
Regulations
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What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Infrastructure
Job Training
Mayors
Rate
Standpoint
Unemployment
Unemployment Rate
Education Work Money
Invest
Investments
Programs
Lower
Provide
Sizes
Smaller
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Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Abandoned
Filled
Mayors
Nonsense
Our World
Trash
Picked
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You know, public service is serious enough on its own, and what I've found is if you take yourself take yourself too seriously in this business, you'll lose sight of what it is that you're trying to get done. So I mean I've tried to have the proper mix of being a serious public servant, but also still being a regular guy.
Michael Nutter / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Public Service
Servant
Sight
Mix
Proper
Regular Guy
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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 / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Opportunity
Aspire
Cities
Educated
Take Care
Thinking
Workforce
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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 / Mayor Of Philadelphia
Tea Party
Terrorist
American Way
Border
Efforts
Enhanced
Pose
Trap
Undocumented
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