Urban Policy Quotes

Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth.

Dysfunction in Washington has stalled any meaningful federal action on gun control. So it's increasingly up to big cities like New York to take bold steps to get weapons off our streets and change the national discourse.

What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs.

I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that?

I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

The Green New Deal is for elitists who live in their high rises in New York City and see a dirty world around them because they're in New York City. I said New York City can pass a Green New Deal... Why not try it? Why not try it?

We have two nations, and it's not black or white. It's red and blue. Under Republican leadership, cities tend to do better. Cities are destroyed under Democrats, because they don't know how to deal with the constituency; they're terrified.

I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I'm going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas, and I think we've got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed, you and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

We cannot afford to deliberately cripple our cities by transferring public tax dollars to private entities for benefits that are unclear at best.

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

The only news most people ever hear about the inner city comes from grim headlines; the only residents they can name are characters on 'The Wire.' Of course, ignorance of a community doesn't stop outsiders from having opinions about it or passing laws that govern it.

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.

Being the governor of New York is a mighty job because of the city of New York. You would not want to be the governor of just upstate.

One of the great crimes of the Bloomberg/Klein administration [in New York City] is that they've removed themselves from communities, as if communities have nothing to say about what their needs and aspirations are for themselves and for their children.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.

The government of the cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States.

No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live.

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

I've worked on the urban agenda all my life. All. My. Life.

We believe open data helps citizens have a better understanding about Seoul's policies and motivates them to join the city government's efforts.

We're going to do a lot of work on the inner cities, I have great people lined up to help.

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.