It is not OK for anyone to be obese. There needs to be a cultural shift.

I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

I've never seen a tornado and I've lived in Oklahoma City basically my whole life. It's not like we're infested with them on a continual basis. But you learn to live with the warnings. And you learn what to do if one is coming your way. And then you cross your fingers and make the best judgments you can.

If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.