Able Quote by Raila Odinga

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

At the same time, you have got these traditional councils. And the challenge is how to make sure that they function together [with municipal…

— Thabo Mbeki

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.

— Michael Bloomberg

The public may want an elected opposition in Parliament, but we have to earn our place and work hard both in our Town Councils…

— Pritam Singh

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the…

— Frank Dobson

Equal constituencies' sound fair. So why is Labour so against the constituencies bill and why do we call it gerrymandering? Because, like so much…

— Emily Thornberry

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

— Thabo Mbeki

That is one of the reasons why we have raised this matter about the need to focus quite sharply on the function of local…

— Thabo Mbeki

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local…

— Theresa May

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the…

— Arthur Capper

You can gerrymander one district, but it's very difficult to gerrymander the whole country.

— Allard K. Lowenstein

You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.

— Ayanna Pressley