Michael Nutter Quotes

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Michael Nutter

Profession : Politician

Birth : June 29, 1957

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.

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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.

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Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

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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.

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Philadelphians are a gritty, tough people who will help you when you're down.

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Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

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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.

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There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

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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.

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