"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."

"Brussels is a city that breathes with a secret, poetic charm."

"Geneva is the place where the future of international cooperation is being written."

"The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century—or the twentieth or nineteenth."

"Swimming in the Yangtze at Wuhan, one feels the power of the great river and the spirit of the people."

"Vancouver is a city of glass towers and incredible natural beauty."

"That's all I claim for Boston—that it is the thinking center of the continent, and therefore of the planet."

"If I had to eat only in one city for the rest of my life, Tokyo would be it."

"Sofia, you are the cradle of my dreams and the city of my youth."

"Warsaw is a city that has risen from the ashes, a testament to the resilience of its people."

"Taipei is the heart of our democracy and a symbol of our vibrant, free society."

"I carry the memory of Basel with me, a city of bridges and intellectual history."

"Seoul is a city that never sleeps, a place that is constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible."