"It’s kind of nice to be with your peers and find out that you’re all dealing with a lot of the same issues,It doesn’t matter what city or state you’re in — blue, red ... whatever. They’re all just trying to think about community safety and housing and just people’s mental health."

"I was able to help put Columbia on the map. ... People talk about Missouri being a flyover state. So when they think about climate research reactors, they think about Boston, and Minnesota and the California coast And yet ... we have this amazing resource here."

"“Seeing the success that they’ve had “I can bring it back and be like, ‘We’re on the right track. We’re doing the right things. Let’s just not let it slide.’”"

"I’m out there in the community I’m out there in the state. I’m out there in the country. I’m out there in the world, talking about our amazing community and how it’s a fantastic place to live."

"“I’m really thankful that I have professional city staff who run the day-to-day, whether I’m in town or not"

"It really helped me put in perspective that we’re part of a larger global community. And we need to be thinking about the decisions we are making because they impact Columbia, but they also have a role to play with our neighbors across state lines and oceans."

"If I have both sides of the aisle upset with me, I think I’m doing a pretty good job."

"What can we do to help kids?"

"When you have something bad happen to you, nothing else matters."

"There is an expectation that a national committeewoman can work with people and effectively communicate, and I don't think she's done a good job in this situation. I think she's got some work to do with relationships and internal discussions on these things. But ultimately, it's a conflict."

"She is not starting off her time as national committeewoman in a very strong way."

"Look, I'm not saying by any stretch of imagination that she shouldn't be able to go out and work, but the reality is that she has taken a position and handled this in such a way that I think she's ultimately going to have to make a choice. I don't believe that she can do both."

"We did not know anything was wrong."

"She truly loved the people of Richmond."

"Her talent and determination allowed her to break barriers by being Contra Costa’s first African-American Director of Public Health Nursing, Richmond’s first black female city councilmember and only black female mayor."

"Irma was a dear friend and my mentor."

"She did not do it for the pomp and circumstance but did it so that the people who could not speak, she could deliver their message. My mother was a pillar for voices that were unrepresented and a lighthouse for folks in troubled waters — giving them hope that, at the end of the night, there was light."

"I’ve lived a great life."

"She was a fierce advocate, but she also had a great bedside manner — always making sure to ask about family and make those connections. She really cared about people individually, which drove her."

"As people say, from the small acorn comes the mighty oak, and my mother was a giant amongst giants."

"She defeated one of the most powerful and influential people in the history of Honolulu politics to become the first female mayor of the City and County of Honolulu. She is a terrific role model for all young girls, and for all the scrappy underdogs who dream of great things. Her contributions to the City will live on in perpetuity."

"With the job of leading the City and County of Honolulu, came the responsibility of making difficult decisions that wouldn’t please everyone. All decisions whether in transportation, tourism, land, or business & industry, would have long term fiscal impacts that ultimately filtered down to the ‘ohana and ʻāina of O‘ahu. Eileen Anderson took this responsibility very seriously. We are proud of her accomplishments and the legacy she leaves behind."

"She's very strict and expects her standards from everyone she works with."

"She reanimated the association. I've learned more from working with her than I did at school."

"We'll take this opportunity . . . to leave behind the mentality of tearing down to rebuild," the Mayor said. "[We'll] take the middle road, ensuring a political journey with the participation of all Ethiopians."

"I don't think she deserves to be mayor."

"As an elected public leader and in the spirit of the principle of good governance, public scrutiny, public accountability and personal integrity, I feel duty-bound to request your office to investigate the purported allegations as reported in the media for the past four months"

"Somebody has not been doing their job since 2006. I know it’s not all of them but those who are not doing their job should be penalised. Officials should be punished when they don’t do their work"

"The Festive Season is a time for people to get together with family and friends, and a time to care and think about others, especially those who are less fortunate and who find the festive season more painfull than cheerful"

"Lilongwe City residents should expect change and I would like to plead with them that by and by we will form the Lilongwe City Friends, everybody who is concerned with Lilongwe City will be coming here and sitting down together and strategize on how we can improve our city."

"I will pay greater attention to street lighting maintenance."

"It’s true that I am in hiding, this is because some DPP senior officials are on my life. They said I am the one who helped the MCP candidate Desmond Bikoko to win the mayor’s election."

"I told the police the same day when one of the DPP senior officials threatened me not to come outside the elections’ hall saying they will kill me but the police never acted on the matter."

"I don’t know what they want. I am a DPP follower and will die a DPP."

"If you did not do your work, tough luck, we are going ahead with development"

"Both the police and the council are aware about the development."

"There are times when there are appointments with the municipality which coincide with meetings at Home Affairs. What you do is you tend to sacrifice one of them"

"The ruling DPP is accusing me of helping the MCP candidate Desmond Bikoko to win the mayor’s elections of Lilongwe city."

"One time, I went to the central marke.you do not even want to buy anything. Flies all over. People are dumping things all over"

"I did not have had time. People respected people those days. When I say something, all councilors would listen… that was the same case with the town clerk, town engineer and health officer. If I told him there a potholes in Namakweke, he would go and see for himself, since he then had to make a report by evening"

"Education takes the most extraordinary amount of discipline, effort and hard work. Reward is always related to this. Time management, beginning with arriving on time for lessons, is essential, but it is a very hard thing to learn."

"I must tell you that the attitude of the staff, which had been one of anger initially, changed quite fundamentally after this incident. I think what changed the dynamic was that I had experienced some of their daily reality, and the conditions under which they work."

"The challenge of transformation is to improve quality. Time management is essential but we also have to measure our performance against benchmarks. For instance we need to know how many days are spent teaching and how well learners are doing."

"Today this kind of analysis is entirely obsolete, but at the time it was taken as self-evident by many activists. This kind of ideology does not respect alternative views or allow an open society."

"It was an unusual background and I often felt a cultural clash between my school and home environments."