Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails. — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
In city hall and in local government, you have to get things done without drama. — Jim Gray Copy Share Image
The old line of thought used to be that local government is the bush leagues. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system. — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence. — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles. — Don Nickles Copy Share Image
I've led a life working at every level of government, from Congress to local government. — Kathy Hochul Copy Share Image
We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry. — Jay Weatherill Copy Share Image
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
We are looking at how you change the relationship between central and local government and how to use public resources to the… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
I think more and more, in places like Benghazi, in places like Iran, we have to be asking the question, can we… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
As governor, I'll reverse cuts to the Local Government Fund and will work cooperatively with communities across the state to combat the… — Richard Cordray Copy Share Image
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was… — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
At the local government level, policies must be championed to increase the number of instructional hours in our schools as well as… — Shaheen Mistri Copy Share Image
There's nothing more powerful than someone who has the disease who can be articulate and go in front of Congress or go… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government.… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
There is an interesting parallel between the 'Argo' story and '13 Hours' in that, around the world, we have 285 or so… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
During the fall of my junior year, I interned in Intergovernmental Affairs in The White House with a focus on outreach to… — Michael Tubbs Copy Share Image
The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government.… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
“So the years passed and everyone grew old and Nell’s husband died and Hilda grew to be a large, angry sort of… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Two thirds of federal disaster aid is weather related,and though we cannot prevent bad weather, we are getting better at predicting it.… — William M. Daley Copy Share Image
You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I think that, you know, state and local governments play a critical role in the protection of this country and the protection… — Alberto Gonzales Copy Share Image
For sure I would prefer Trump had not withdrawn from the Paris Agreement. But the fight against climate change is really done… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
“What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label "Liberal?" If by "Liberal" they mean, as they want people… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Living through the Blitz, edited by MO’s Tom Harrisson, makes clear just how much the ‘1945’ we now consume is a construct,… — Owen Hatherley Copy Share Image
“The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“In his campaign for the presidency, Reagan mastered the "excision of the language of race from conservative public discourse"… For example, when… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The Salem [witch] trials…can be seen as an example of the propensity of the American people to be convulsed by spasms of… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image