Walt Whitman Quotes

Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back.

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

Canberra was my home for many years, and there's a lot to love about it. It has a small population with a strong sense of community and is top-heavy with interesting, highly educated, socially progressive people - the opposite of the stereotypical image of dull public servants.

When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people who just wanted to be a part of the community and give something back. They weren't necessarily trying to use it as a steppingstone to something else. I looked up to those people.

I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

One great building does not make a great city.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.

One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers.

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Washington is busy with nothing that absorbs the minds and occupies the energies of the typical American city.

It is the men who makes a city.

We want to shine a light on this great city of Baltimore. I can tell you, I love this city.

Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

Citizens are the energy of Seoul.