Local Government Quotes

• Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Fun, Men, Political

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• What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Needs, Locals

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

  Anthony Albanese

  Government, Play, Roles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I come back to what I had said earlier: the policies might be there but are people benefiting from the policies? You do find that in many instances, though the policies exist, they are not having the necessary impact. That is a particular challenge in local government, because that is where all the services get delivered.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Impact, Government, People

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage in denying the right of citizens to vote. Their actions serve
  only to assure that their State governments and local governments shall be remote from the people, least representative of the people's will and least responsive to the people's wishes.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Government, People, Wish

  Special Message to the Congress on the Right To Vote, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. March 15, 1965.

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• The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Giving, Political

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.436

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• [J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Exercise, Government

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• A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Party, Thinking, Government

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• It's time to start bringing the congregations down to City Hall and to ask the mayors, the city councils and the school boards, "What's the plan? What's the local government going to do for us?"

  Van Jones

  School, Government, Cities

  Source: aalbc.com

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• We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Real, Women, Government

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• However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Government, Law, States

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• In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Government, Towns, States

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• As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Girl, Men, Voice

  "Making cities safe for women and girls" by Michelle Bachelet, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.

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• I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

  Don Nickles

  Believe, Government, Roles

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• Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Democratic Ideals, Boss

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• Today government touches everything in America and harms almost everything it touches. Federal, state, and local governments together spend 42 out of every 100 dollars we earn. Those who do the taxing and spending have long since ceased to work for the people as a whole. Rather, they work for themselves and for their clients-the education industry, the welfare culture, public-employee unions, etc.

  Malcolm Wallop

  America, Government, Long

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• Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

  John Boehner

  Government, America, Small Business

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• Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

  Farley Mowat

  Power, Government, Political

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• Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?

  Andy Sawford

  Government, Benefits, Majority

  "The budget: we pick the key points for local authorities" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

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• That is one of the reasons why we have raised this matter about the need to focus quite sharply on the function of local government, but also on the resourcing of local government. Because it may very well be that we say to local government, you have got to run an indigent policy.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Running, Government, Focus

  Source: www.gov.za

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• At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Law, Government, Unions

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Government, Water

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• [M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Years, Politics

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• While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Believe, Government, Eminent Domain

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• The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Government, Jim Crow Laws

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