Dick Murphy
Dick Murphy
Richard M.Murphyis a former U.S. politician. He served as the 33rd Mayor of San Diego, California from 2000 to 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 December 1942
CountryUnited States of America
care challenge corner good people
I don't care if you're good or not. You don't always have a corner on perfection. And you need people to challenge what you're suggesting.
belief career coincide good happens interested loses majority necessary people politics public pursuing themselves
My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out.
almost assuming human human-nature indebted
You know, it's almost human nature. If you give me a gift, I feel indebted to you... assuming it's a substantial gift.
criteria difficult few match people quite
I don't think it will be that difficult to match the (10) highlighted criteria on this list. There are probably quite a few people out there who have done these things.
attracts best brightest politics sincere
I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.
discussed graduation left rates start students
What I want to know is, how many students did we start with and how many did we have in the end? The other thing I want to know is, who left and why? . . . I would like to see graduation rates and absenteeism discussed at the same time.
hard stores veterans
Without stores like that, veterans would have a hard time.
convince leave people schedule staff time took
It took a long time for me to convince my staff people to leave me unscheduled from 2:00 to 4:00 everyday. And I need to do that as mayor. I need to schedule accessibility time.
impact important mayors
You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.
careers want needs
I want to be mayor, but I don’t need to be mayor. I’m not a career politician.
community trying firsts
Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.
At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be.
fire hearts lost
Our hearts go out to those who have lost their homes, ... This fire is so overwhelming, so devastating.
arranged center cultural goes nicely park people plenty quite stores traffic walk
I think it's quite nicely arranged around our cultural center this year, and I think that's fine. People still will see the stores as they park and walk through downtown, going to and from the festival. There will be plenty of traffic that day. We'll see how it goes this year.