Jane Jacobs Quotes

Our streets should be safe at all times. You shouldn't have to worry about things like knife or other crime.

Companionate Conservatism - Making the streets safer before people are kicked out onto them.

And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe?

Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.

Street lights, dog-doo and parking meters are not my cup of tea.

I think our police do an excellent job, day in and day out, working to keep us safe.

Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer.

True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.

Since becoming Mayor, I have advocated for safer streets.

I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.

Obviously, we have to do a far better job on keeping our community safe, and that's where I'm going to put a significant amount of input.

More cops on our streets and in our neighborhoods mean safer streets and neighborhoods.

We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.

Security here in New York City is still very tight. Hookers in Times Square now are demanding two forms of fake ID.

Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in America.

I will work with local police and appoint the best prosecutors and federal investigators, whose mission will be to ensure every American is safe.

We've directed the creation of a task force for reducing violent crime in America, including the horrendous situation - take a look at Chicago and others - taking place right now in our inner cities.

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

I live about four muggings from Central Park.

The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage.

Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.

That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible. They operate on the premise that city people seek the sight of emptiness, obvious order and quiet. Nothing could be less true. The presences of great numbers of people gathered together in cities should not only be frankly accepted as a physical fact... they should also be enjoyed as an asset and their presence celebrated.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.