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Quotes About Municipal

I still like TIPS (Treasury inflation-protected securities), and I think a big opportunity is coming in the municipal bond market.
~ Wilbur Ross
The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself.
~ Stephen Butler Leacock
Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.
~ Frank Lautenberg
When I was brought up in Sweden, there was a great opportunity for young people to learn how to act in our municipal theaters with their small companies. You would be under contract for eight months and have the summer free to take other opportunities.
~ Max von Sydow
The only city people are those born so.
~ George Ade
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
~ Aristotle
It is important that China stop its over-reliance on municipal debt to finance infrastructure. I take comfort in the fact that China's leaders understand this.
~ Henry Paulson
He was unrelenting in his cause, though his own need for religious faith involved him in contradictions and compromises; though the caste structures in his own family remained in place; and though, in the garbage of Madras, the broken roads, the absence of municipal regulation, the factionalism and plunder of the DMK administration and its successor administrations, something close to chaos could be seen.
~ V.S. Naipaul
Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.
~ David Hume
No one thinks of controlling inflation of a continental-sized country by holding back municipal tariffs. Macroeconomic stability cannot be achieved through microeconomic intervention.
~ Fernando Haddad
I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship.
~ Bill de Blasio
Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.
~ John Hickenlooper
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.
~ Joseph Pulitzer
Indeed, counterculture is so commercial and so business-friendly today that a school of urban theorists thrives by instructing municipal authorities on the fine points of luring artists, hipsters, gays, and rock bands to their cities on the ground that where these groups go, corporate offices will follow.
~ Thomas Frank
Even in the eighteenth century, before either the French Revolution or the paleotechnic revolution had been consummated, it had become the fashion to discredit municipal authorities and to sneer at local interests. In the newly organized states, even those based on republican principles, only matters of national moment, organized by political parties, counted in men's hopes or dreams.
~ Lewis Mumford
For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.
~ Jane Byrne
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
~ Stephen Gardiner
It's a dull, quiet building in a dull, quiet town—its architecture as beautiful as the word municipal.
~ David Levithan
I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.
~ Jim Butcher
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
~ Al Smith
There's not a doubt in my mind that you will see a spate of municipal-bond defaults.
~ Meredith Whitney
This estate is called a Phoenix. It's not a municipal venture, it's a social rebirth, a statement of a sincere belief that decent conditions make a decent community, and I'm
~ Margery Allingham
There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
~ Fiorello H. La Guardia
It helped that municipal employees tore down opposition posters, and that the only independent pollster, Levada, was closed down two weeks before the election.
~ Unknown