2,405 Quotes About Cities

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.

I as an elected official would never recommend anybody to boycott any city or state.

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.