Top 1200 Local Governments Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I have no truck with the faintly conspiratorial argument that international governments are gleeful about a public-health emergency to enact authoritarian measures.
The world is completely revolutionized, so we're told, and so the logic goes that governments can just print money to pay their bills and there'll be no consequences. It's insane.
We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.
Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.
England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.
The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.
Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.
Whether we realize it or not, we benefit from the work of public-sector employees and our state, county and municipal governments every day.
In city hall and in local government, you have to get things done without drama.
Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.
There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.
Businesses and governments need to work together and make a joint commitment if we want to address climate change effectively and quickly.
Local businesses have never had a great way to get customers in the door.
I never get into local politics and believe in giving a long rope to people.
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.
People are so much more interested in making connections, and finding common ground, and sharing experiences than sometimes their governments are.
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.
There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.
Eventually, the economy will work well when you reduce subsidies. People have got used to getting some handouts from governments.
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.
We need to stop sending federal military equipment to local police departments.
The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.
Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too.
So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.
If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.
Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested interests, and they don't like it.
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.
While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local level.
As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.
The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.
By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.
We believe that governments and the organizations that are charged with keeping our communities safe have to have access to the most sophisticated, modern technology that exists.
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.
Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.
You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds.
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
Every city has comedians who tap into local culture and have success but don't travel well.
The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
Where civil society thrives, governments operate with more transparency and accountability. This creates a tangible impact on the lives of everyday citizens.
The dynamics of the Taliban now appear to be very different and complex, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they attack governments and mainstream parties.
Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.
Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs
My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.
[D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.
Use your voice on the local level where it has the potential to be more widely heard.
It is the duty of governments to create a pro-voter environment that encourages participation, but it is also the responsibility of citizens to make their voices heard.
Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.
In a federal structure such as ours, state governments are imperative for the smooth functioning of our overall polity. They can't just be wished away.
The Kitchen's mission is to strengthen communities by bringing local, real food to everyone.
No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.
I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards.
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
Governments do have the duty to protect national interest. But we should not be afraid of foreign funding of Indian CSOs, unless malintent can be proved.
The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.
