The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.

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.

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

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

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.'

People look for their leadership to lead.

Jobs follow people. People don't follow jobs.