Jobs follow people. People don't follow jobs.

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.

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.

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.

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

Everything she knew about him rushed through her mind like a tidal wave.

How pleased I was to see I strick the Beast to the heart.

Never trust an armed police officer.

In faith and hope the world will disagree but all mankind's concern is charity.

Hope is a great falsifier of truth.

I don't have any fault steps. I play with good technique and good pad level.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

Everything that we design is designing us back

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.