City Problems Quotes

The voters have been very clear that we need to address the homelessness and housing crisis that is affecting our City, and I remain focused on solving these issues.

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.

Nothing in Chicago seems to be working the way it’s supposed to.

Mumbai is becoming more and more of a nightmare.

Everyone is getting out of the city [Philadelphia] who can.

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.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

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.

When I hear stories about the number of kids that have been lost to violence, where families grow up teaching kids 'duck and cover' long before they learn their ABC's or their colors, I know there is something profoundly wrong in our city.

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

Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They are almost an expected feature of life in a big city, and it is tempting to think there is little or nothing that can, or even should, be done about it. This is not so.

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.

I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut.

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

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

What a miserable place a city is for poor people.

Totally, if I wasn't trying to be an actor, I would leave L.A. because you can't really have that life here. There's a lot of baggage that comes with being here, like the paparazzi, traffic, and all of it.

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

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

Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

See, New York is over the hill. It's swallowed up in its own garbage. And the people - I can't stand the people.

Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.