Quotes About Local knowledge

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

You see, his father wasn't married to his mother…." "Really? I had no idea of that." "Everyone knows about it down here, otherwise I wouldn't have said anything about it.

Those which are of most importance, and which seem most to require local knowledge, are commerce, taxation, and the militia.

The representatives of each State will not only bring with them a considerable knowledge of its laws, and a local knowledge of their respective districts, but will probably in all cases have been members, and may even at the very time be members, of the State legislature, where all the local information and interests of the State are assembled, and from whence they may easily be conveyed by a very few hands into the legislature of the United States.

That was one thing you could count on in small southern towns: everyone knew where the Walmart was located.

I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home.

It's common sense: when you move in, you try to learn the neighborhood.

Richard wanted to take me to all the town's secret places, the nooks only the locals knew about. Places where people meet to screw or smoke dope, where teens drink, or folks go to sit by themselves and decide where their lives had unraveled. Everyone has a moment where life goes off the rails.

Great thing about asking a real cab hack for directions is they'll know where you want to go. Bad thing is they give it to you in cabbie. Lots of turn left by the hobo peeing on the cat sorta stuff.

Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?

I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.

There is no business in the world - I don't care what it is, whether it's I.T. or manufacturing - that does not have what I may refer to as a blended resource base. You have high-end work. You have engineering work. You have some local knowledge you require. Then, you have some very low-cost work to be done.

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.

It's always better when travelling to be in a place where your friends know the area well.

So much of the intelligence and local knowledge in agriculture has been removed from the farm to the laboratory, and then returned to the farm in the form of a chemical or machine. "Whose

There's only so much we can do from the home office to merchandise a store well. If you live in that community and work in that store, you know more about what you should be featuring and the actionality on an end cap than someone from Bentonville, Arkansas does.

I didn't like the Feds coming to town when I was in Miami, telling me what to do. I didn't like them coming to town and thinking that they knew more about Miami than I do.

No other expertise can substitute for locality knowledge in planning, whether the planning is creative, coordinating or predictive.

Between these two programs---the industrial and the agrarian, the global and the local---the most critical difference is that of knowledge. The global economy institutionalizes a global ignorance, in which producers and consumers cannot know or care about one another, and in which the histories of all products will be lost. In such circumstances, the degradation of products and places, producers and consumers, is inevitable.