A Quote by Roy Cooper

My commitment to rural North Carolina is personal. I understand the opportunities and challenges our rural communities face.

Roy Cooper

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Roy Cooper
American - Politician
Born: June 13, 1957

I grew up and raised my family in Nash County in rural Eastern North Carolina. Small towns and rural communities like mine offer special opportunities for so many families. I want them to prosper.

Roy Cooper

Rural communities and our nation's economy also stand to benefit from broadband expansion. Rural schools can expand the quantity and quality of educational programming. Rural communities can attract businesses and investment.

Abigail Spanberger

It is time for us to make a real commitment to our rural communities by expanding broadband, by supporting our farmers, by building affordable housing and taking on rural poverty. That's how we leave no one behind.

Amy Klobuchar

People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

Tom Vilsack

USDA Rural Development is responsible for helping rural counties and small communities provide public services and foster economic growth. Often these investments help fill gaps that are hard to overcome with a rural tax base.

Cindy Hyde-Smith

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Hazardous weather poses unique challenges for rural communities like many throughout our state.

Cindy Hyde-Smith

Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.

Tom Vilsack

Tapping into the ingenuity, resourcefulness, and work ethic of people in Western North Carolina through rural broadband will benefit not just NC-11 but our state and nation.

Madison Cawthorn

In August 2008, I moved with the man who would become my husband from Boston to a cabin in rural North Carolina.

Laura van den Berg

I didn't grow up on any sort of border; more in the middle of nowhere, in rural eastern North Carolina.

Tim Pratt

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

Garth Risk Hallberg

The funding of rural roads is imperative if we want to continue to grow our economy and improve the overall health of our vast, rural regions in the commonwealth. As a native of the Eastern Shore, I know that a single trip down U.S. Route 13 and across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge - Tunnel can show us how important infrastructure is to rural Virginia.

Ralph Northam

I think the Democrats have - we really have failed to be in rural America, in the sense of having our leaders spending time talking to folks in rural America. The president Barack Obama has been there, but other than the president and vice president, we have had not a whole lot of conversation in rural America.

Tom Vilsack

Bharat Nirman was a development programme aimed at stepping up public investment and public-private partnerships in the construction of rural roads, drinking water supply, rural telecommunication, rural housing, and minor irrigation.

Sanjaya Baru

I obviously disagree with the individuals who do not support rural America and do not support rural airports. Under their philosophy, maybe we shouldnt even be paving roads in rural America, because there are fewer people that drive on them.

Glenn Thompson

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