American Quote by Bernie Sanders

Town meetings are not bean bag. I've had hundreds of them, and sometimes folks get upset. And that's part of America, part of our…

— Dick Durbin

Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of…

— Mark McKinnon

You have a lot of people asking for town halls with the purpose of disrupting a town hall.

— Lee Zeldin

So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

— Jack Markell

Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to…

— Russ Feingold

The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is…

— David Frum

New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting…

— Murray Bookchin

“A meeting is that measure whereby a large number of people gather and some say things that they don't think and others think things…

— Vladimir Voinovich

At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or…

— Donella Meadows

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.

— Sheila Jackson Lee

Vermonters are not only charmless of manner, on the whole; they are also, as far as I can judge, utterly without pretence, and give…

— Jan Morris

“Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.”

— Alain de Botton