The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the… — James Inhofe Copy Share Image
Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
[Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Texas Gov. Rick Perry referred to the Mexican city of Juarez as the most dangerous city in America. In his defense, he… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I enjoy Chicago as one of the great American cities. When I come here and take a taxi from the airport, I… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It… — Kenneth W. Royce Copy Share Image
I've been telling you for years that if they don't get their way, if all of this stuff that's happened does not… — William Bill Copy Share Image
I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and… — Darren Walker Copy Share Image
It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans - the one that should be a… — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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. — Mick Cornett Copy Share Image
The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city. — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If you sit around and wring your hands as they're all doing now until something happens to a major American city, then… — James Inhofe Copy Share Image
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance… — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally...… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
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