We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.
The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.
There are local interests peculiar to every town, whether great or small, and common to all its inhabitants: every town, therefore, without distinction of size, ought to have its municipal council.
A tourist will come drawn to its beautiful past but we need to put efforts for creating systems to make them stay here.
So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
DMOs help our economy thrive in South Jersey.
We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.
If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow moving, Indian administrative system slow moving.
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.
I don't fund county roads.
Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.
There's a Ford dealer in every city around the United States. They're the fabric of the community. They're either head of the chamber of commerce or the priest, or I mean they're just the fabric of America, and they took care of us.
Mayors, city council members, and legislators come and go, but neighborhoods don't go anywhere.
