People look for their leadership to lead.

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.

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.

When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Architecture is invention.

I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

I think that in some ways there is no more important thing in my life outside of family and God.

Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."