San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American…

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

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and…

— Alan Autry

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