Top 1200 Local Governments Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.
Trade deals are not the vehicle for raising or lowering standards of protection for consumers, the environment, workers or anyone else. Regulations are made by governments and parliaments.
Conservative and Labour governments have arguably championed British rights in Brussels so ostentatiously in order to deflect public attention away from their deference to Washington.
Refugee problems can only be solved in the region (of origin) - maybe with a little help from the UN. Governments must provide something for their countries. They need to deliver.
Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.
As an Asst. Secretary of State, I often urged authoritarian governments around the world not to use emergency powers to defy their legislatures, courts, and laws.
Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.
The internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is legitimate personal and intellectual communication, and what is not.
When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing.
My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.
I started [in television] as a local sportscaster in Oklahoma City and that will always be my love. It's kind of what I live for.
Democratically elected governments meekly requesting giant corporations to pay pitifully low levels of tax on their enormous profits is not a good look.
I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.
No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
As for the "anger" of the volcano, we leave it up to the local populations who create their demons, their gods and their divine punishment.
So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.
I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.
Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.
It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.
In the interests of competitiveness in a globalizing world economy, governments of all complexions introduced labour-market reforms that promoted flexibility but accentuated the precariat's insecurities.
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.
Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
State governments should not have to compete in bidding contests against each other in order to get the necessary supplies to protect and help their citizens.
My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.
Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone.
I think we live in a country that sometimes forgets how effective the rule of law is, perhaps because our governments have often found it inconvenient.
We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.
Not only are mandatory minimum laws overly punitive and discriminatory, but they're also expensive. Prison is not free. Governments, and ultimately taxpayers, bear the costs.
Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times.
Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself
Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.
You can't really feel the direct change from one president to another versus people closer to you in local elections.
However hard you might try, you can never understand a market like a local person would.
New York voters agree on this: There is too much corruption in government - federal, state, and local.
It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.
Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.
If governments start to go it alone on trade, it will become harder, not easier, to generate the jobs and rising incomes that angry electorates want.
Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
Started off local but thanks to all the haters, I know G4 pilots on a first name basis.
Solutions and ideas should come from the bottom up, generated by local communities and not mandated from Washington.
I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be considered gunslingers.
The real cost of corruption in government, whether it is local, state, or federal, is a loss of the public trust.
I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.
Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.
For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.
Most apparent conspiracies result from consistent local self-interest with no need for global coordination.
Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.
I think the big difference between most countries and the U.S., is that governments are more straightforward now about their intentions to gather information on private communications.
Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.
I was a mad obsessive cricket player as a student. Then during one local match I nearly lost my eye.
