American Cities Quotes - Page 3

• L.A. is my American city.

  Tom Ford

  Cities

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• The same advice my commanding officer at Patrol Squadron 17, Cmdr. Robert J. Quinn, gave me before I was grilled to be given the responsibility to lead a crew of 12 all over the world, ready to stop a Russian submarine preparing to wipe out an American city with a nuclear missile: ‘Always remember that common sense and communication will solve 95 percent of the challenges you face in the Navy and life.

  Pete Olson

  Communication, Responsibility, Cities

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic, as it were, in the president's vision.

  James R. Schlesinger

  Cities, Goal, Political

  "Schlesinger Says Distrust Hinders Foreign Policy" by Hedrick Smith, www.nytimes.com. February 7, 1985.

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• I think many people are not seeing the change. They`re really upset with the current situation. We haven`t seen a major American city go up like this in quite some time.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Cities, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American city are marred by violence. What we have seen in Baltimore should, indeed I think does, tear at our soul.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Thinking, Grieving

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.

  Colin Ward

  Responsibility, Cities, Police

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• By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean, healthy environment. When I grew up, no one seriously criticized the steel mills and paper mills for the deadly stench they produced - that was the smell of prosperity. In the modern society, no one would tolerate such conditions in an American city.

  Denis Hayes

  Believe, Cities, Smell

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Air, Cities, Remember

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2009.

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• The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Home, Cities, Losing

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• And yes,Percy,of course they are now in our United States. Look at your symbol,the eagle of Zeus. Look at the statue of Prometheus in Rockefeller Center,the Greek facades of our government builidings in Washington. I defy you to find any American city where the Olympians are not proeminently displayed, in multiple places. Like it or not-and believe me,plenty of people weren't very found of Rome,either-America is now the heart of the flame. It is the great power of the West.And so Olympus is here.And we are here.

  Rick Riordan

  Believe, Heart, Cities

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• A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley.

  Alan Autry

  Cities, Valleys, Matter

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• American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.

  John Steinbeck

  Cities, Mountain, Use

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• Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

  William Gibson

  Cities, Television, Way

  William Gibson (2007). “Spook Country”, p.295, Penguin

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• I've been telling you for years that if they don't get their way, if all of this stuff that's happened does not enable them to bring about their world totalitarian socialist government, disarm the American people and create their New World Order, they'll blow up an American city with an atomic bomb. They will do it. I have said it probably a couple of hundred times.

  William Bill

  Couple, Blow, Socialist Government

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• The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

  John Henry Cox

  Real, Cities, Justice

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• If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

  Barbara Kruger

  New York, Cities, Culture

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• To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

  Eric Alterman

  Cities, Age, United States

  "Out of Print". www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2008.

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• Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a spurt of brilliance. It is shot through with originality, verve, and-why not go all the way?-genius. People love it, can't get enough of it, can't stop performing it-and they are not wrong. For closing in on a half- century now, The Music Man has been performed continually, in every American city, town, and village, and in other parts of the world as well, not excluding Peking.

  Meredith Willson

  Men, Cities, People

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• In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Diversity, Needs

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.240, Vintage

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• The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

  Tom Piazza

  Past, New Orleans, Cities

  Tom Piazza (2015). “Why New Orleans Matters”, p.9, HarperCollins

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• All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Science, Technology

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.315, Ballantine Books

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• If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.

  James Inhofe

  War, Mass Destruction, Cities

  Source: votesmart.org

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• If you sit around and wring your hands as they're all doing now until something happens to a major American city, then it is too late.

  James Inhofe

  Hands, Cities, Too Late

  Source: votesmart.org

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• [Political actions] has to happen on the local and state level; we have to convince our cities to join the growing number of more than 200 American cities who have signed on to the mayor's climate campaign.

  Bill McKibben

  Cities, Numbers, Political

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear attack against an American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

  David Krieger

  Islamic, Cities, Worst Case Scenario

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