American Quote by Robert Hormats

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

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

Mayors, I think, tend to be more no-nonsense, and you look for economic opportunities for your communities.

— Lois Frankel

Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.

— Michael Nutter

What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people…

— Michael Nutter

Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the…

— Alex Steffen

We as mayors have the opportunity to push the envelope and get people thinking, even when it is not politically popular. Cities hold the…

— Greg Nickels

Mayors are really good at dealing with things practically.

— Eric Garcetti

When you look at a mayor, Americans see mayors favorably. We are at the front line of what Americans are dealing with every day.

— Wayne Messam

Cities have to realize that whatever the federal government is going to do, its not going to be enough. And cities that proactively take…

— Mick Cornett

Cities are complex and contain just about any thing or concept ever invented by humans. How the city is built, its topography, and how…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes…

— William J. Mitchell