Achieve Quote by Cory Booker

Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions,…

— Cory Booker

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping…

— Alex Steffen

“Individual cities that now do the same thing can reap the benefits. So this isn’t complicated: the most educated people who plug into the…

— Thomas L. Friedman

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

— Jane Jacobs

Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment.…

— Ban Ki-moon

As the world's 'most dynamic' cities seek to manage their own urban growth, American state and local officials have much to offer. Our mayors…

— Robert Hormats

Infrastructure is the backbone of America, and our nation's progress has often been tied to our ability to complete major projects that spur economic…

— Josh Shapiro

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

— Corrine Brown

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

— Paul Goldberger

“It can only benefit the city to have endless waves of exceptionally capable, even brilliant, folk unfettered by class and family connections. They change…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of…

— Alex Steffen

As industries migrate toward the Far East, the future of many Western cities will no longer lie in manufacturing products but ideas and patents.…

— Charles Landry