I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

Donald Trump is in a partisan election, so he views the role differently than Mitch Landrieu and I who are are trying to lead our cities in a bipartisan or nonpartisan manner.

It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.

When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.

Jobs follow people. People don't follow jobs.

The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.

If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

People look for their leadership to lead.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.

The imagination is a wonderful thing

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Blood is the price of victory

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.

In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.