Quotes About Local

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

I always believe in buying things locally; anything locally made is a big plus, along with organic materials. I try really hard to do that, and brands really pop out to me if I know they're trying to be environmentally friendly.

I am from Colorado. I know Colorado inside and out.

What can we do to put more Colorado in Washington and less Washington in Colorado?

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

I believe that the strength in America is individual families and communities.

It's time to return our education policy back to local communities.

We want our communities to know what real food is.

Mayors, I think, tend to be more no-nonsense, and you look for economic opportunities for your communities.

When you compare mayors to Washington insiders, Americans see that mayors actually get the job done.

The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.

I wouldn't single out Facebook as a concern, because we've got different local competitors around the world.

I am proud of the fact the community elected a congressman who was born and raised in the community. I am trying my best to be successful for the community.

The biggest product thing for international is connecting you with local people, local content.

When you have a major movie star, and then they're surrounded by local extras, it takes me out or makes me more conscious of what's going on, as opposed to losing myself in the movie.

Where I live, I am surrounded by fresh, organic food, so I eat really well.

Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

To have survived in radio for 30 years is pretty remarkable. Even more remarkable is to have been able to do it in the same market I've lived in my whole life.

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

It may be irrational, but if you're local, the client often feels that, if worse comes to worst, they can knock on your door. They 'know where you live.' But when you're remote, they're going to be more suspicious when phone calls go unreturned or emails keep getting 'lost.' Stay on top of communications, and you'll reap the benefits.

Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.

The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.

I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.