Top 308 Residents Quotes & Sayings

Our residents deserve a government that is dedicated to changing with new technology and makes transactions as easy as possible.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

I want to live in a Britain whose residents are determined to speak English.

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired, but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.

When residents feel like they can talk to the police, officers can stop crime before it starts.

Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress.

I encourage the residents of Houston County to let their elected representatives know that closing the Dothan Trooper Post is unacceptable.

One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.

Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

From day one, our administration promised to streamline government services and make interacting with the residents of Connecticut much easier.

This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

Seven months after Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey residents and business are continuing the hard work of recovery.

Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.

As the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, I see on a daily basis the impact of politics and policy on my family, neighbors, friends, and residents.

My main frustration is that NJ Transit continually misleads the residents of South Jersey.

I have had the fortunate privilege of serving as a state representative for residents in the great cities of Detroit, River Rouge, and Ecorse.

One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens.

Our constituents deserve outstanding services, and my office is working to ensure we are as accessible as possible to residents across the 18th Congressional District.

The health and safety of the residents of our region continues to be my highest priority.

Walking the streets of San Francisco can be a frightening, demoralizing, even an unhealthy experience for residents and tourists alike.

Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact as if on some sort of comfortable global platform.

I'm committed to helping the residents of Stockton succeed.

New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.

There were several parallels between Jonestown and Escuela Caribe. Both places used isolation to control a large group of people and censored their communication with the outside world so their loved ones wouldn't know about the rampant physical abuse and misery of the residents. I think the worst fallout, in both cases, was the living in constant fear, witnessing other residents get assaulted and worrying that you'd be next. That's where Post Traumatic Stress Disorder comes from.

I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents.

My tenure as mayor of Braddock started with a community that was embroiled in mass distrust between residents and the police force.

Representative DeLauro has always been a fighter in Congress on behalf of all the residents of Connecticut.

We need to be fearless in reaching for the scale of change that our residents deserve.

Lawful residents of San Francisco are being stripped of their freedom because of an illegal measure that defies common sense... I believe that we will prevail.

Part of what makes Minneapolis such a vibrant place to live and work is that we have active residents of all ages.

Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense.

I constantly hear from residents throughout my community about the need for common sense action in Congress to reduce gun violence.

The first presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions.

I absolutely disagree that it was an illegal annexation: a referendum was held, and residents of Crimea chose to rejoin Russia.

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

What is important to me is that the world understand that the problems of the Dead Sea concern not only residents of the region but humanity.

We want to make sure Arizona residents have the opportunity to learn about the decisions we are making and have a chance to participate in the process.

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.

I've been impressed with Rick Guzman and his commitment to the residents of Aurora since I first met him many years ago.

We, through city government, can add protections and regulations and have policy conversations about so many aspects of what affects our residents' daily lives.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

While it's absolutely important that we build housing for our low-income residents, when we are talking about opening up hundreds of sites for housing, we should be trying to build affordable housing for all of our residents struggling to pay rent. That means housing for teachers, for nurses, for janitors.

Enforcement priorities developed by my administration are not affected by this ruling. This means that the people who might have benefited from the expanded deferred action policies, long-term residents raising children who are Americans or legal residents, they will remain low priorities for enforcement, as long as you have not committed a crime, our limited immigration enforcement resources are not focused on you.

When new businesses open that are trying to attract people with cultural capital or cultural ambitions, they are often more expensive than traditional neighborhood stores and cafés, they offer different products, and they have a different atmosphere. Longtime residents may feel uncomfortable there. Structurally, as a group of gentrifiers gets bigger, there is less room for longtime residents. When it becomes a pattern and you can see the effects, we call that displacement.

As do most Koreans, Seoul residents consider the uncertainty related to housing to be the biggest threat to their livelihoods.

A budget must be more than a ledger sheet. It should have a heart and serve as a blueprint for a better quality of life for all residents.

I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows!

Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.

City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.

Whether D.C. residents will be full-fledged citizens seems to be a case worthy of the Supreme Court.

They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

The strengths of our city historically have been connected to being a home for residents from all backgrounds: immigrant residents, residents who represent a diversity of race and economic situations and perspectives. And if we don't address our housing crisis, and the dramatically rising cost of living, we will lose that core of our city.

If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.

In Austin, the eco-capital of Texas, residents tend to favor native plants and wildflowers to the sculpted lawns of the Palm Springs variety.

Seoul strives to make an environment that is safe for foreign residents and also where they can succeed as well.

National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents.