Authority Quote by Jane Jacobs

[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become…

— Jane Jacobs

Some of the large [municipalities] in Quebec can contain within them most of the answers to their own practical problems. And so lots of…

— Jane Jacobs

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

— Wen Jiabao

When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county,…

— Alexander Hamilton

“These urban provinces, new to the American scene, possess greater economic, social, and cultural unity than most of the states. Yet, subdivided into separate…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr

Quite frankly, the federal government needs - as it needs to on so many levels - to be a better partner to provinces and…

— Justin Trudeau

One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if they were…

— Jane Jacobs

There could be a 'community of communities' rather than a state. They would be united in some way but without any governing body. It…

— Dorothy Day

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

— Elton Gallegly

Those communal areas have got elected municipalities, which have got to do their work as, as fully, democratically elected municipal councils.

— Thabo Mbeki

“A cluster of municipalities with charming provincial enmities, their own internal fights, and people out to get one another aggregates to a quite benign…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend.

— Gary Lineker