What they're saying

“If you have a situation where you’re short $3 million, you’ve got to make a decision. Those are the kinds of decisions I’m suggesting that it’s very difficult to do without experience.”

– James Harrington, On what it takes to be a mayor and balance a municipal budget.

“I don’t care if you jaywalk or drop a wrapper on the street, we want to make it very uncomfortable for you to stay here.”

– Jass Stewart, on how the city isn’t dealing with crime and how small “crimes” hurt the city.

“People are very demoralized ... We can do much, much better. We don’t want business as usual any more.”

– Gayle Kelley, on why change is needed in city government.

“There’s something missing when people start taking these drugs.”

– Harrington. He said the city was acting, but that parents of addicted children should look at themselves.

“What I see is a city where crime is up, where unemployment is up, where foreclosures are out of control. If that’s the kind of experience this mayor is bringing to the table, we can do without that.”

– Stewart, on why the city needs a change in the mayor’s office.

“Higher management, when they said there wasn’t any money, gave themselves raises.”

– Kelley, on the city’s budget and why people are suspicious that some city leaders are taking care of themselves first.

“Last year, God was good to us, it didn’t snow. It gave a lot of us a little more money in the budget.”

– Harrington, on the mild winter and why it was good for the city’s bottom line.

“The whole notion of burning fossil fuels is a thing of the past.”

– Stewart, opposing the proposed power plant for Brockton.

“We can do – better. We can do – better."

– Kelley supporters, Chanting in the street before the mayoral debate.