Famous Quotes & Sayings

The excitement in this city has been tremendous and has really gotten us excited.

What if the city makes it so difficult for us to do what we do that everyone gives up?

Bill Lee

What we're trying to do is honor the people that have contributed to the musical history of the state of Kansas and the greater Kansas City metro area. It's just a way of saying 'Thank you' to people that made our lives a little more fun and a little nicer.

Jeff Allen

We are looking for more university partners in Iowa City to provide our graduates with more options.

We're essentially relocating most of the city of New Orleans,

We're essentially picking up a small city and inserting it into Houston.

Dan Jenkins

Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.

The rapist has plagued this city for exactly a year,

There are not as many people here as in the past, but I think there are a lot more on the way. I think the city will really be jammed.

There are approximately 65,000 smokers in this city that didn't go out and vote.

Upgrading the fiber optic lines and signals will enable us to improve communication with each signal and troubleshoot problems quickly. It also improves our signal coordination so that motorists can travel within the city more efficiently.

Jim Fowler

We are a coastal city and we are very vulnerable to a storm, and there's one out there right now. We are not financially prepared for that storm. . . . It isn'ta question of if a storm of this nature hits Citrus County. It is a question of when.

We're not trying to create a city with walls around it that isolates from the world.

Our forces are now fighting inside the city of Kinshasa. We are determined to fight, we are determined to win and control the city.

Our focus now is on sharing information with the City Council so that they have the facts in front of them so that they can make a good decision for the city.

Our goal is by 2010 we want to have a presence in every major city in the country,

Our goal ... is to turn that completely around and make that one of the premiere neighborhoods in the town. We're going to do everything the city can do to improve that area. We're going to do water, sewer and roads. We're going to put in curbs and sidewalks. ... We're going to look at a fence program. ... We're going to put in the decorative streetlights that will match the streetlights in the city center.

Overall, it was a good meet for us. Iowa City West was strong everywhere, and Mount Pleasant is also very good, and the competition was just what we needed. Most of our kids responded well to the toughness of the meet.

James Tate

Overall, it's been a good week. We're very pleased. I've never seen this many people in the city over seven days, but it went very well because everyone has been friendly and cooperative.

Over all, the new flood maps released by FEMA today truly do represent some good news for the city and its rebuilding process. Essentially, these new maps more or less maintain the city to the already previously enforced 100-year flood elevation standards.

Laura Bush

Out of New Orleans is going to come a great city again.

Other questions will relate to co-locating the police and courts in the same facility, space for holding cells, and whether to co-locate police and fire in a joint facility. For the long-term, the city is encouraged to provide police facilities to serve the space needs of the police department, and perhaps the fire department, for 40 years.

Right now, our city and county are experiencing an overweight and obesity epidemic. We must expand and strengthen our community efforts to impact this serious health challenge, especially as it relates to our children.

Retailers in the city who really depended on this last rush are probably not going to get what they expected.

Rents in the city will continue to go up this year.

(Residents) will not see a difference in the way the city is running.

Joel Edgerton

Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.

People who live in the city were much more positive about the community and happier about where they lived than in the suburbs of Maryland and Virginia. It has something to do with D.C. being a grown-up city and the suburbs still have growing pains.

Really, we should not. City Hall is not approachable. To be honest, I think they should all go.

Really the soul of the city is what people are trying to get back to. Its not a structure. Its not a street name. Its what we know as New Orleans. And what we can feel when we get together.

George H. W. Bush

Recovery is going to take years. We need to help these Gulf Coast communities and, of course, the great city of New Orleans get back on their feet. The job is too big, too overwhelming for any one group.

John Grant

Reasonable people in the city of Oceanside would say, 'Great, get rid of that old trailer park,' ... don't like it, (but) they're going to have to move.

Jeff really has local Washington sensibilities. . . . He understands the city and demonstrated it when he put together a team with deep local roots.