Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a…

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

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

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

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

— Newt Gingrich

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

— Pete Hamill

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

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

— John Henry Cox

[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

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

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

— Tom Piazza

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

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

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

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

“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