Quotes About Local

Mobilize your friends and neighbors to understand that your day-to-day involvement with local government matters far more than a referendum on the White House every four years.

President Obama is an inspiration of mine, and interning with his administration in the White House opened my eyes to the possibilities of making change at the local level.

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.

There are numerous groups across the country, both local and national, that are working to prevent gun violence in our communities.

Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very into; she was one of the first people I tried to emulate. She's a local Austin blues artist. Marsha Paul I was also a very big fan of.

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.

I have worked for Tesco and am grateful to them but in principle I believe in individual shops.

I want to fight hard for the values and priorities of my district.

Empowering communities by leveraging federal and local investments helps improve the federal-local relationship and advance shared priorities.

We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress.

Every time I tour, I find a pro - I go to the local tennis center in that country, wherever it is and I play.

Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

The industrial food system ships in high-calorie, low-nutrient, processed food from thousands of miles away. It leaves us disconnected from our food and the people who grow it.

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

At Babbo, each dish grew out of a conversation, trying to put something forth that was new and different. It was a combination of culinary adventurism and the dining-room experience with respect for the classic but with an eye toward innovation. And it was about eating locally, whether produce or fish or meat.

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

You get lots of people, especially where I live, who go in to a butcher and insist on organic beef - even when the butcher has better-tasting stuff from a farm that's been producing wonderful meat for 100 years but hasn't jumped through the hoops to get organic certification.

Developing the locally-run industry is very important in increasing the production of consumer goods.

Let's diminish the impact and influence D.C. has on the decisions that we make here in Colorado.

I don't want to live in a world without the diner and the coffee shop and the mom and pop places, the ethnic restaurants.

It started off at a club called Disobey, around the corner from where I live.