Cities have realized that they can attract educated people and they don't need good schools to do it. |
I have always, always wanted to live in Washington, |
I think we do need more time off, but it's not a government issue. It needs to be a social thing. People need to realize that working all the time and ignoring families is not healthy. |
If an employer is serious about attracting and retaining talent, about making Wisconsin the kind of place they can do business over the long haul, they've got to understand that the ability for all people to feel welcome is absolutely critical. |
If the foreign talent cannot get into the United States or faces considerable delays in doing so, companies are in effect forced to go overseas to get it. |
L.A. draws highly skilled Asians and San Francisco draws highly skilled gays, but D.C. draws highly skilled everybody -- gays, Latins, Asians, Africans, scientists and so on, ... The trick will be to avoid pricing ourselves out of that creativity. |
Minneapolis-St. Paul is competing for a very mobile group of people who have the world for their choices. |
people are really smart and engaged. There's no better place in the country to write serious nonfiction. There's no better place to be public intellectuals. |
You know what they say, they say we want our kids back. We want them to stop leaving. What they don't say is that they want other people's kids to move there. |
You've got these housing markets that are completely out of whack. There's no point of entry for young people anymore. |