Bob Beckel Quotes

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

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.

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.

What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'

The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.

If we can have a surge in Bagdad, why can’t we have a surge here at home.

Tom Gores has been involved in the City of Detroit, not just the surrounding area.

We're tying to get Baltimore on the right track.

What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs.

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand.

If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.

If we can get everybody working or as many as we can, you would be amazed at how many of our problems will disintegrate, go away.

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.

It would be nice if areas could be revitalised - like places in the U.S. such as Pittsburgh, for example, which have been transformed through shale. There you have shiny cars in a shiny city because of the development of shale in an old industrial heartland.

If you want to cut down crime in America, give people some jobs.

The reason most politicians don't like urban enterprise zones is that the jobs that are moved into the zones come from their districts.

Simple projects such as paving roads, can do more to boost a poor economy than a premature push to develop cutting-edge technologies, but soon the benefits of basic infrastructure run their course.