Quotes About Local

We need a system where some politicians - who quite rightly respond to the public mood - are prepared to stand up in favour of housebuilding, so I came up with a system that gives local people something they really want in return for building more homes. In our case in Hatfield, it's a new town centre.

Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control.

I've learnt that what you need to do is have standards that are agreed nationally and then allow people locally to work out what they need.

Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn't mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

The local church, too, has table servers. We call them "deacons." The joy, peace, unity, and fruitfulness of the local church depends in part on having a cadre of faithful table servants who are present when needed, eager to serve without being intrusive.

even received a few requests that I send medicine, since none was available in the local pharmacies—an admission, unthinkable a few years ago, that all is not well in the much-vaunted health-care system.

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

Interstate commerce grew so rapidly that hundreds of local clock conventions had to be replaced by a national system of standardized time in 1883.

After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make real food more affordable? Food that's locally-grown, if possible, fundamentally nourishing to the body, nourishing to the planet.

Within the black community, I'm definitely a neighborhood celebrity.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.

Neighborhood restaurants matter.

Mayors, city council members, and legislators come and go, but neighborhoods don't go anywhere.

We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.

My experience as a county commissioner has taught me that the best ideas often come from our neighbors, church groups, and community.

Black Lives Matter, as a network, will not, does not, has not, ain't going to endorse any candidates. Now if there are activists within the movement that want to do that independently, they should feel free, and if that's what makes sense for their local conditions, that's fantastic.

My view is that we should not be taxing at the Federal level for the things that New Jersey can do for itself.

State and local governments in New Jersey are a critical line of defense in the effort to respond to COVID-19.

What I like to do when I get to a new place is buy local music early on and listen to it while we're driving around. I think it helps explain and illuminate the culture of where you are if local music is playing.