Mick Cornett Quotes

I care about making New York better.

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy.

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

I strongly believe being mayor is the public post in which you have the greatest opportunity to change peoples' lives for the better. People live in cities, not states or nations. As a mayor, you are connected directly to citizens.

Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity.

Queens is so often treated as a stepchild and labeled as an outer borough. At the very least, if I could help bring more attention to what we need, and what the federal government needs to do to improve the quality of life of people right here in Queens - any way that I can do that, I'm very happy to do that.

All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.

There are a lot of rules in cities that were designed to protect a particular incumbent, but not to move a city's constituents, a city's citizens, and the city itself, forward. And that's a problem.

It's really time for the State of Wisconsin to form a better relationship with the greater Milwaukee area.

Detroit can become a national model for urban revitalization, but to do so, it must break free from past development models.

It's interesting: the letters I get from mayors that want Wal-Mart to look and invest in their community.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

I have realized after all these years that a city that has a good quality of life attracts jobs. People don't want to invest in places if there is no quality of life.

We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.

After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.

We believe that business is the engine that drives the car. You've got to build your business base. That means creating more jobs, better paying jobs - that's how you raise your standard of living. That's how you raise your quality of life. That's what funds all the other services people want from government.

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

Mayors are leaders, doers. We get things done, and we are moving America's cities forward.

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

It's not, 'We have a city to bid, now let's go check in with the federal government'.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life.

In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.