City Issues Quotes

I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.

People are always telling me to shut up about Chicago.

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

I started using my blog to get information about cities I was about to visit, asking followers what the main problems there were. Many mentioned misconduct of politicians and other things I wanted to talk about during my shows. Then, before a show in one city, local politicians called saying they would sue if I said something unpleasant.

Boy, I wouldn't want to live in L.A.

My fight isn't with Charlie Hales. My fight is with the problems he has failed to address as mayor.

I didn't run for mayor because everything was going great in Baltimore in 1999.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Portland needs a mayor who is going to take on the significant issues this city is facing.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities - New York, San Francisco - or we focus on cities that are having the toughest time - Detroit, Newark, Camden.

You can't just put a bubble over the Westside of L.A. and pretend like there aren't other problems. The way that we are failing the kids in this city through our education system has a profound effect on everybody in the city, and I'm not prepared just to turn a blind eye to that.

There's something specific about Chicagoans, and I just felt like I'd love to tell their story in a creative way. Not in a way to go, 'Oh, Chicago's perfect.' I don't believe that. I don't think that. I know we have our issues.

I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

There are two Baltimores. There are clearly two Baltimores.

The sewer is the conscience of the city.

It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

So far, my trip in Australia has been absolutely lovely - wonderful country, wonderful people... And then there's Melbourne.

I want to make sure we are spending wisely and using our resources effectively to address the issues facing San Francisco, while reaching residents throughout our entire City.

Most of the bad things that have happened to me happened in Denver.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

Many other cities could go the way that Los Angeles went last night unless the president is willing to step in and take some strong action in terms of letting people know that he cares about this issue.

I am generally enthusiastic about cities. Here in the West there is a panic. Every time we have a debate about cities, we talk about the problems of cities.

I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities.