Wendy E. Long Quotes

Hillary Clinton's been talking about the inner cities for 25 years. Nothing's going to ever happen.

I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that?

Newark faces real challenges.

I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.

The fierce battles between New Democrat centrists and old-style liberals that defined the Democratic Party in the 1990s are long gone, with the party unified behind Barack Obama's economic agenda of universal health care, expensive federal programs and more regulation of the financial markets.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city, but favelas are not always a problem - sometimes they can be a solution, if you have the right public policies.

Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it is.

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

A ghetto can be improved in only one way; out of existence.

Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don't have jobs, it'll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community.

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.

We are fighting for an affordable, diverse community where all of us can thrive.

Environment, homelessness, infrastructure and immigration - I'm very focused on all four, which are critical to the success of Los Angeles.

My take on gentrification and change is it's usually always a better thing, because when you see all these businesses open and flourishing, that means there are more jobs.

I'm from the inner city of Buffalo.

My vision is to give the people of Iowa a place to call home that unleashes opportunity at every turn.

I don't wish for anybody to go out of business, but I think there are far too many things in New York that really shouldn't be here.