We must be willing to courageously invest in our city.

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

We must be willing to courageously invest in our city.

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

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

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center.

All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

A multi-purpose stadium is an absolute must in order to invigorate our downtown and, simultaneously, let the rest of the country witness that we can get things done.

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

You decide every moment of every day who you are and what you believe in. You get a second chance every second.

If you're indexing to the S&P 500, you're buying the most expensive names in the market.

People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.

I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump's business plan is a disaster in the making.

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.

Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

If you have a great business, if you're great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn't be this secret.

Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

A young man is so strong so mad so certain and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose.

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time.

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

I can't get carried away with having a good time because everyone, especially the young guys, have to know there's a time and place for everything.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.