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Quotes About Local

It is my opinion that a local school board cannot impose a mandatory fee on students taking advanced placement courses for the required taking of the Advanced Placement Examination.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
~ Ian Goldin
As a kid who grew up in Montana, I resent regulation being formulated and forced in Washington from bureaucrats that have never been to Montana.
~ Ryan Zinke
Just as every animal is part of a kingdom, phylum, class, and order, every Dorchester resident has a parish, school, park, and neighborhood that they identify with.
~ Ayanna Pressley
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.
~ Vincent Frank
The health and safety of the residents of our region continues to be my highest priority.
~ Conor Lamb
I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our theater know me by sight, because they've seen me onstage so much.
~ Tracy Letts
Every time I travel for work, I always think that maybe they'll be time to take in some of the local sights. But there never is.
~ Martha MacCallum
One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him.
~ James Kirkwood
My decision to appoint an inspector is not taken lightly. I hope it sends a strong signal that robust processes are in place to investigate allegations of failures in financial management and governance in local government.
~ Sajid Javid
We've been lucky. Even as a young, local-level band, we were able to rise out of the local scene without having any debt, without having signed the wrong deal with the wrong manager or the wrong booker or a small label.
~ Tyler Joseph
Renewable ethanol represents a clear opportunity to grow a significant portion of our own fuel locally and begin to break the hold imported fuels have on us.
~ Mike May
Fifty percent of the local citizens are sympathetic and the other fifty are pissed as hell. Does the problem get solved? No, it does not.
~ Sue Grafton
The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.
~ Susan Sontag
The penthouse bar had an even more commanding view, and craft cocktails named after local or formerly local writers and their books--- the Anne Rice blood orange martini, the Tsukiyama Samurai, the Christopher Moore Demon, the Joy Luck Cocktail.
~ Susan Wiggs
I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.
~ Josh Charles
Todos dicen que es muy linda. Yo sospecho que será una beldad lugareña y algo rústica.
~ Juan Valera
My arithmetic is fine, thank you," Nicole snapped. Her arithmetic from what she'd seen was a damn sight better than that of any local without a counting board in front of him. The Romans, naturally enough, used and thought in terms of Roman numerals, and Roman numerals were to arithmetic what cruel and unusual punishment was to jurisprudence.
~ Judith Tarr
Be informed, ask questions, band together with your community, and fight at the local level. And make sure you take your local elections as seriously as the national ones.
~ Erin Brockovich
Other than much needed infrastructure development, local administrations in Papua must encourage entrepreneurship and creativity.
~ Ciputra
U.S. infrastructure projects ought to support workers and create jobs in South Bend and Gary, not in Shenzhen and Guangzhou.
~ Mike Braun
Nationally, more than one million Asian American entrepreneurs create jobs in their communities, helping fuel local commerce. In New York, we have seen firsthand how this community has helped drive our economy forward through hard work and ingenuity.
~ Nydia Velazquez
With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.
~ John Burnside
Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.
~ David Harsanyi