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

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.

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.

I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.

One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second.

Life is about the moments you create, that you can keep it with you FOREVER. After everything is over, That is what we have or what we are left with.

Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

My job had been to get the package from point A to point B and what happened after that did not need to concern me. I was just the mule.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird.

Love is unpredictable and it’s frustrating and it’s tragic and it’s beautiful.