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  • I think many people are not seeing the change. They`re really upset with the current situation. We haven`t seen a major American city go up like this in quite some time.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

  • The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.

    "Liberty Was Also Attacked In Boston". www.thedailysheeple.com. April 30, 2013.
  • A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.

    Fear   Gun   Cities  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.360, Bantam
  • No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

    Anthony Trollope (1862). “North America”, p.186
  • There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.

    Cities   Events   Nuclear  
    "Nuclear blast victims would have to wait". usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 13, 2010.
  • To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

    "Out of Print". www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2008.
  • Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady

    Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.83, Random House
  • If you visit American city, You will find it very pretty. Just two things of which you must beware: Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air. Pollution, pollution, They got smog and sewage and mud. Turn on your tap and get hot and cold running crud. See the halibuts and the sturgeons Being wiped out by detergents. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, But they don't last long if they try. Pollution, pollution, You can use the latest toothpaste, And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste.

    Running   Cities   Two  
    "Pollution" (song) (1965)
  • In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.

    "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1995.
  • If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.

    Source: votesmart.org
  • The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

    Tom Piazza (2015). “Why New Orleans Matters”, p.9, HarperCollins
  • There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends.

    Men   Cities   House  
    Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.240, Best Books on
  • The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

    Cities   Focus   Chicago  
    "Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.
  • New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

  • I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are.

    Cities   Veils   Persian  
    "Mission for my Country". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 232, 1961.
  • Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.

  • A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley.

    Cities   Valleys   Matter  
  • ...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It is also irrefutable that those 31 states which have made conceal carry of handguns easy for law-abiding citizens have correspondingly enjoyed significant drops in their crime rates.

    Gun   Law   Cities  
  • I'd rather we were rebuilding Philadelphia, as opposed to Kabul...There are American cities with serious infrastructure problems and we're not addressing them.

  • In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

    Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.37, First Avenue Editions
  • Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American city are marred by violence. What we have seen in Baltimore should, indeed I think does, tear at our soul.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

    Art   New York   Cities  
  • Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  • This is a serious problem that will lead to a serious debate about the first amendment.

    Real   Thinking   Cities  
    "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. December 17, 2006.
  • San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

  • Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

  • Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.

    "Maverick mayor: 'Eco-architecture not ego-architecture!'". Interview with Zara Bilgrami, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.
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