“The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.”

“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”

“According to the 2003 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 25.8 percent of [New Orleans] population lives below the poverty line... This is more than twice the national average, but is close tot he percentages in other American cities such as Miami (28.5), Los Angeles (22.1), Atlanta (24.4), and New York City (21.2). ”

“Unlike New York or Chicago, once you were inside Boston, any point in the city was fairly convenient to any other.”

“The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.”

“If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.”