A natural disaster in one American city is a natural…

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern…

— Martin Filler

Texas Gov. Rick Perry referred to the Mexican city of Juarez as the most dangerous city in America. In his defense, he probably just…

— Jay Leno

What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to…

— Henry Giroux

Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all…

— Fritz Leiber

In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is…

— Daniel Dennett

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

— Tom Piazza

While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other…

— John Gunther

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

— John Henry Cox

I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that…

— John Green

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

— Pete Hamill

This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

— Newt Gingrich

If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is…

— James Inhofe

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

— Martin O'Malley

“A democracy is understandably boisterous and subject to the prevailing social and economic whims of the nation’s bulging populous. Politics based upon mass appeal…

— Kilroy J. Oldster