Michael Nutter
Michael Nutter
Michael Anthony Nutteris an American politician who was the 98th Mayor of Philadelphia. Elected on November 6, 2007, he was reelected to a second term on November 8, 2011. He is a previous member of the Philadelphia City Council from the 4th district and had served as the 52nd Ward Democratic Leader until 1990. Mayor Nutter also served as the President of the United States Conference of Mayors from June 2012 to June 2013. He received an honorary doctorate in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 June 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.
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.
There is no Democratic or Republican way to fill a pothole.
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.
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.
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.
Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.
Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.
If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up.
I got elected as the mayor of Philadelphia and yes I am black. But my responsibility is to all the citizens of the city.
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.
The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.