What we know about American medicine is that our supply of health-care professionals is not equally distributed. In rural areas, we have… — David Shulkin Copy Share Image
My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
I grew up in a pretty small town in a rural area in southwestern Saskatchewan, close to the Montana border. You either… — Colter Wall Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was very lucky that I grew up in suburban Virginia, which, at the time, felt like… — Ian Harding Copy Share Image
I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When I was in the Mississippi Legislature, we worked to establish the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program to help address the shortage… — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
One of the biggest divides in Canada - I said it in 2006, and I said it right through my political career… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“Khaosai, Somluck, Paveena, and Mum all came from the rural northeast. Religion, song, sport, and comedy broadened the class range of the… — Chris Baker Copy Share Image
I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
We go into rural communities, and all we do - like has been done in this room [at TED] - is create… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of… — William Kamkwamba Copy Share Image
As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will… — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
Divides between north and south, towns and cities, between urban and rural areas, cause people to experience a gulf in quality of… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
You'll find a lot of rural municipalities, very, very big district municipalities that actually have no tax base whereas our system of… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“The first sight of the Rapstone Valley is of something unexpectedly isolated and uninterruptedly rural; a solitary jogger is the only outward… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Public libraries are critical learning centers for New Mexicans that bring communities together, especially in our rural regions that depend on library… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo.… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
Landowners, farmers and gamekeepers, though they comprise a small minority of the rural population, claim to speak for everyone, and dismiss those… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“Keep dreaming, Irish,” she said dryly, though her breath was ragged. “I will, but it remains to be seen whether they’ll come… — Whitney K-E Copy Share Image
Just a decade after 'Living in Bondage,' Nollywood films, made in some 300 languages, were being watched in both urban and rural… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We are not, in some fundamental ways, a single country. The map of that vast red swatch of states and rural counties… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
We go into rural communities and all we do, like has been done in this room, is create the space. When these… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're… — Garret Keizer Copy Share Image
I lived somewhat of a nomadic life, even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in suburban areas,… — Haley Bennett Copy Share Image
We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas,… — John Warner Copy Share Image
The Delmore Brothers is hit music - very, very popular - and it still retains that rural flavor and simplicity. I always… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I live in the rural area of North Georgia, so for me, those are these best days. It has little to do… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
I realized some time ago that, while there are really, really high quality schools in urban India - my daughter attends one… — Shaffi Mather Copy Share Image
Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday,… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
Our rural communities are the heart of our state and too often lack equitable access to housing, transit, and economic opportunity, so… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
If you've never been to Michigan, everyone thinks it's completely rural. It's a destination state. You don't really drive through; you're going… — Borns Copy Share Image
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