Laura Kelly Quotes

Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.

A strong Commonwealth is built on a foundation of strong communities. Friendly, welcoming, bustling neighborhoods and downtowns. Great schools. Safe, accessible, attractive places to play. Growing local economies. And a belief that anything is possible.

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

Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy along a number of interrelated dimensions, much as a human body cannot be healthy without adequate air, water, rest, and food.

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

I think Australia is just a great place to bring up a family.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

A community is business, education, and housing. Without those, the community suffers.

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?

I love this province and I believe in a better future for Ontario.

Knox County, Tennessee, is a great place to live, work, and raise a family.

I love working in America!

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.

What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.

Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

I've probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in New York City with the possible exception of Mike Bloomberg, who was there for 12 years.

People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

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

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'

Today, in 2014, Victoria is a better, stronger, more financially secure state than when we came to government four years ago.

I have no hesitation to say that St. Louis is a great place in which to live and work.