The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness — J. Rufus Fears Copy Share Image
Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every… — Alan Autry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted,… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness. — John Henry Cox 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
I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a… — John Green Copy Share Image
There are caste systems in American cities: Many are marginalized to the edges of urban centers due to real estate costs; price… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
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… — Fritz Leiber 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'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
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
Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco,… — Edwin Black Copy Share Image
What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“when America entered the era of the automobile, there was a noticeable tendency for the affluent of American cities to build their… — Stephen Birmingham 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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I haven't seen too many similarities between Montreal and American cities. — Alissa White-Gluz 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 of more than 200 American cities who have signed on to the mayor's climate campaign.” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/015/bill-mckibben-1057_action_political-actions-has-to-happen-on-the-l_1342869.jpg)
![“The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is…” quote by Chris Christie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cbe/chris-christie-1382_american-cities_the-message-of-donald-trump-is-that-that_776613.jpg)
![“[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.” quote by John Gunther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b98/john-gunther-24750_bigger_chicago-is-the-greatest-and-most-typical_326243.jpg)
