Districts Quotes

66 Districts quotes by 58 unique authors

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts. — Don Nickles
Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured. — Thomas E. Mann
We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood. — Gavin Newsom
In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their… — George Will
We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the… — Edward Burnett Tylor
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. — William Rounseville Alger
With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or… — James Buchan
Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where… — John Engler
We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal… — George Perkins Marsh
Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint… — John Ensign
The Delta is a conservative place, .. District 28 is a very conservative district. We don't have many conservative districts in the Delta. Mississippi is… — Charles Capps
The congresspersons who are co-sponsoring the bill are being beat up in their districts with negative advertising. We need to go to them and say… — Charlie Norwood
With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a… — Jennifer Granholm
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… — Andrew Cuomo
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students… — Dianne Feinstein
As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than… — Jonathan Kozol
Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives… — Clara Zetkin
It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the… — Rebecca West
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected… — Betty Smith
I'm not their slave," the man mutters. "I am," I say. "That's why I killed Cato... and he killed Thresh... and he killed Clove... and… — Suzanne Collins
And we must fight back! President Snow says he's sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb… — Suzanne Collins
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei,… — Thomas Pynchon
Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how… — Suzanne Collins

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