Richard Rogers Quotes

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.

My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.

As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.

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

I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.

Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city.

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.

Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.

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

I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization.

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

Mr. Mayor. I've decided the best place for the '68 [Democratic] convention is Chicago! You are the one who can handle it!

We can’t be a great country unless we have great cities.

Let's make Oakland a model 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.

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

Before I became prime minister, as mayor of Jerusalem, I became world-renowned because of my fight for the unity of Jerusalem.

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 can't believe the sense of community here, the amount of pride the people who run this city have in Las Vegas. They are wonderful.

Part of me would love to be mayor for the simple reason that I love my city.

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

I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.

As mayor I don't intend to be just a voice for Portland. I intend to be a voice for urban America.