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

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 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.

You only have to do one good thing to be in somebody’s lifetime of prayers.

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe.

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.

I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.