Neighborhood Engagement Quotes

I can't wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and cutting those ribbons that somebody is creating new jobs.

There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.

Community policing is a great idea. It's worked in the Hoosier state.

My own view - and I'm very open to hearing other perspectives - is that this movement-building needs to begin at home, in local communities. It isn't about trying to launch a brand new national party overnight. It's about people in communities coming together across lines of difference, bringing with them their movements, their families, and coming together and saying, "How can we together build a movement of movements here at home? What would that look like? What do we want to do right here in our communities?"

In Boston where community policing is so important, they don't necessarily have to like each other, but they know each other. The cops in Boston make it their business to get out of their vehicles, to engage the public, to walk around the neighborhoods. They live in the community that they police. And I think these things help.

We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community.

You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.

You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.