Cory Booker Quotes

A great American city is fighting for its life.

New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.

There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle.

Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it.

I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.

In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared.

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.

Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit of both.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on, but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man.

What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.

What I do know is that liberal Democrat policies in our big cities are not helping anybody, especially our big cities.

Chicago seems to follow New York, and coming from New York and being in real estate, I worry about things happening in Chicago that have happened in New York. I've seen a great city like New York go downhill. It has a wonderful financial downtown, but the rest of the city is not very nice.

Detroit can't come close to repairing the decades of neglect without addressing the crisis in our neighborhoods. I live in southwest Detroit near Woodmere Cemetery. My neighbors and I deal with the negative impacts of job loss, increased poverty, and pollution every day.

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

The only difference between Compton and other cities is the ZIP Code, you know, and the mindset - it's just really about challenging people to take ownership of our community.

Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.

I am generally enthusiastic about cities. Here in the West there is a panic. Every time we have a debate about cities, we talk about the problems of cities.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.