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.

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.

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.

Is there more to see?" Brixton asks. "No. Just a long walk back to hope.

Even though life is finite, the universe created you with infinite love. Celebrate your birthday with infinite joy and create endless memories.

Fine, I'll teach you, ''Besides, there's only so many times a girl wants to fall on her butt in front of the boy she's out to impress.

Just because you're beautiful they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

having too much is never enough.

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

I've got butterflies in my stomach... because I ate a cocoon quesadilla!

I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.