Mick Cornett Quotes

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

Donald Trump is in a partisan election, so he views the role differently than Mitch Landrieu and I who are are trying to lead our cities in a bipartisan or nonpartisan manner.

It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.

When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.

Jobs follow people. People don't follow jobs.

The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.

If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

People look for their leadership to lead.

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.

I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

We've got to get people out of their cars, out of those drive-thru windows, get them walking, get them in parks and get them more active.