I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.

There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center.

If you can't tell someone how to think, then you have to learn to manage the environment where they think.

There is no more staunch advocate for taking public dollars and giving them to private schools - private schools that can pick the students they want to teach - than Betsy DeVos.

If you don't have an e-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.

Did you ever think we would be anything other than unbelievable?

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

How many people have you made homesick for God?

Today, rather than looking for the worst in people, I encourage you to look for what's best within them.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!