Mick Cornett Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“If you can attract highly educated people from other parts of the country and keep your own best and brightest, chances are the job creators are going to be successful.”

“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.'”

“We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.”

“Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.”

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

“Jobs follow people. People don't follow jobs.”

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

“People say the seats at sporting events are too small. My response is, 'That's why we're trying to work on the size of your rear end!'”

“There are a lot of things that government doesn't do well. One of things that government does do well is build stuff.”

“Think independently and put the country first.”