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
hard stores veterans
Without stores like that, veterans would have a hard time.
front
informally, you know, but not in front of the council.
cannot four influenced job rule running second
I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests.
convinced data expand expanding far home program results shown staying suggest
I'm not convinced that we have data that would suggest we need to expand this program. We're expanding a program where the results have so far shown us that staying home may be better.
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.
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.
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.
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.
convinced elected financing interests power public remove unless
I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.
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.