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Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in… — Milton Friedman
Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy. — Jan Schakowsky
Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I… — Jacques Pepin
In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters… — Spencer Bachus
As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and… — Luis Gutierrez
The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who had received life-saving… — David Ortiz
In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next door to this 84-year-old woman,… — Jack Dee
Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round… — Martin Parr
The fact that so many people choose to live in ways that narrow the community of fate to a very limited set of others and… — Margaret Levi
When a person becomes a Christian, he doesnâ€™t just join a local church because itâ€™s a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins… — Mark Dever
Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the… — Mark Dever
Do you want to know that your new life is real? Commit yourself to a local group of saved sinners. Try to love them. Donâ€™t… — Mark Dever
The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our… — John Stott
We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local… — Theresa May
People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the… — Theresa May
Real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether through community-controlled renewable… — Naomi Klein
When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their… — Benjamin Franklin
Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science: they bring it… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a… — Elwyn Brooks White
The local church is the hope of the world. — Bill Hybels

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