Richard Attias Quotes

Let's make Oakland a model city.

The credit for much of this rightly belongs to the late Mayor Daley who forged a coalition of business and labor that kept Chicago always moving ahead.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

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

I want to make Seoul the front line of the new South Korea. Seoul is sleeping, and I want to wake it up.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

Brazil will change when its cities change.

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

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.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

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

I was elected to carry forward my overall vision for the city.

I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.

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

I've done eight years as mayor of London. I enjoyed it hugely; it was a massive privilege.

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.

Now that Sacramento is building an arena downtown, they're the only one not in an urban core. The only one. It's really not good business. It's nothing against Auburn Hills, Oakland County or L. Brooks Patterson. An arena in the middle of a field is not an ideal thing.

I think Milan lack a bit of renovation and planning for the future. Too often, they focused only on the present, particularly after the 2007 Champions League triumph.

I am committed to ensuring that, as Portland grows, the things we love about our city grow along with us.

Changing communities and changing our country is going to last a lot longer than how many footballs you catch or how many touchdowns you make.

I can sign all of the emergency proclamations I want, but that's not going to fix the infrastructure in urban Honolulu.

I know what it takes to move cities forward. It's not about rhetoric and great speaking, but it takes relationships.

Washington, D.C., has for too long ignored the reality that if we do not invest in infrastructure in urban America we are doing so at the jeopardy of the economy.

Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.