Our Cities Quotes

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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it… — Harry Browne
I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear… — Dick Cheney
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it… — Wernher von Braun
We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim… — Barack Obama
We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency. — Mathis Wackernagel
Hundreds, thousands, aye, millions of human beings, men, women and children, wander the streets of our cities and the highways of our country, hungry, ragged… — Victoria Woodhull
Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or… — Albert Allen Bartlett
So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if those lines are… — David Suzuki
We can and should have an abundance of trails for walking, cycling, and horseback riding, in and close to our cities. In the backcountry we… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation.… — John Francis Hylan
Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent… — Tim Robbins
There's a mindset in other countries that if you're an American, you're a Christian. Well, those people are sadly misled; they don't know our country.… — Tim Conway
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent… — Eric Sevareid
Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price. — John Norquist
Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families… — Allan Fromme
It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind… — Jane Jacobs
But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of… — Antonin Scalia
I mean, these are kids that are getting on rail cars, riding the top of rail cars all the way up through Mexico. I mean,… — Rick Perry
So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles,… — Chip Giller
Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights and sounds, the… — Tony Hiss

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