Local Quotes

On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns. (Margaret Thatcher)
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. View quote
Edmund Burke
My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism. View quote
Ann Coulter
Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local. View quote
Murray Rothbard
Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception. View quote
Tariq Ali
Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control. View quote
John Hume
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 cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating. View quote
Jacques Pepin
Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system. View quote
Imran Khan
The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice. View quote
Daryl Hannah
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. View quote
A. R. Ammons
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. (Albert Bushnell Hart)
I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit. View quote
Allyson Schwartz
Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it. View quote
Andrew Greeley
State and local government, with financial support from the federal government, should offer a program to educate and train foster children for employment and provide them with financial assistance, as needed, until they reach age 21. View quote
Charles Bass
States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities. View quote
Corrine Brown
One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre. View quote
David Soul
However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law. View quote
Dick Thornburgh
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. View quote
Fiona Shaw
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment. View quote
Gale Norton
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world. View quote
Ike Skelton
Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus. (Luc Montagnier)
Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts. View quote
Marla Maples
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. View quote
Robert McChesney
For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue. View quote
Solomon Ortiz
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical. View quote
Buckminster Fuller