Able Quote by Wen Jiabao

Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become possible, because…

— Jane Jacobs

Whatever position we may rise to, be it of MP, CM or PM, nothing can teach us the way villages can.

— Narendra Modi

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Thabo Mbeki

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

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A community is like the ones who govern it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

My vision for the country is to urbanise rural areas. What is available in the cities must be available in the villages.

— Jaggi Vasudev

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating…

— Aristotle

When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the…

— Paul Goodman

I want to make a city that can run smoothly with anyone in charge, even without a mayor in place.

— Park Won-soon

Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What…

— Hillary Clinton