City Hall Quotes:

You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

- Jack Kerouac

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Fighting, Cities, Names, City Hall

You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.

- George Carlin

source: George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.81, Hachette UK

topic: Stupid, Fighting, Blow, City Hall

Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

- Drew Carey

topic: Cities, House, Political, City Hall

Whether you actually can or can't fight city hall is of little relevance. Either way, when the need arises, you must!

- Derek R. Audette

topic: Fighting, Cities, Needs, City Hall

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962

- John Steinbeck

source: John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.1250, Penguin UK

topic: Responsibility, Games, Cities, Stockholm, Bards

The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.

- Vicki Baum

topic: Cities, Squares, House, City Hall

You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

- George Edward Woodberry

topic: Cities, Names, Liberty, City Hall, Single Women

I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because I knew that our cities, towns and counties would be a key part of the solution to this issue. ...there is no one-size-fits all policy or program that can solve this problem. And Washington certainly does not have all the answers. Instead, many of the best, most innovative, most effective solutions start in our city halls and our towns and our county councils.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Children, Issues, Keys, One Size Fits All, Our Town

I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

- Lea Salonga

topic: Believe, Cities, Fundamentals, City Hall

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

- Tony Campolo

topic: Religious, Europe, Cities, City Hall

Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand why he must do this. For if his frustration and despair are allowed to continue piling up, millions of Negroes will seek solace and security in black-nationalist ideologies. And this, inevitably, would lead to a frightening racial nightmare.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Frustration, Cities, Effort, City Hall, Let Him Go

The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.

- Paul Gray

topic: Typewriters, Cities, Scotch, Nicotine, City Hall

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

- Mother Jones

topic: Children, Cities, Profit, City Hall

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

- Sam Donaldson

topic: Night, Cities, Texas, City Hall, El Paso

It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

- Van Jones

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: School, Government, Cities, City Council, City Hall

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

- Laura Miller

topic: Real, Cities, People, City Hall

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.

- George Carlin

topic: Running, Smart, Thinking, City Hall, Critical Thinking

Remember that the problem is bigger than the car you drive or the types of lightbulbs in city hall. We need a fundamental shift away from dirty fossil fuels that spew carbon pollution. To make that happen, we need to put pressure on our leaders to take the bold actions necessary to move us off dirty sources of energy.

- Al Gore

source: "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Dirty, Moving, Cities, City Hall, Fossil Fuel

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that you CAN fight City Hall and WIN; that any action is better than no action, even if it's the wrong action; that you never reach glory or self-fulfillment unless you're willing to risk everything, dare anything, put yourself dead on the line every time; and that once one becomes strong or rich or potent or powerful it is the responsibility of the strong to help the weak BECOME strong.

- Harlan Ellison

topic: Strong, Powerful, Philosophy, Wrong Actions, City Hall

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

- Laura Miller

topic: Dream, Air, Years, City Hall, Unethical

Never take an elevator in city hall.

- Harvey Milk

topic: Adversity, Cities, Elevators, City Hall

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

- Steve Chabot

topic: Play, Cities, Groups, City Hall

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

- Laura Miller

topic: Years, Cities, Focus, Cleaning Up, City Hall

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

- Mike Royko

source: Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.313, Agate Digital

topic: Cities, Rehabilitation, Criminals, City Hall

I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.

- Denis Kearney

topic: Book, Law, Cities, City Hall, Police Force

If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.

- Julian Bond

topic: Religious, Gay, Cities, City Hall, Religious Bigotry