Quotes About Community

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

What are you afraid of, mister, it won't be so bad. You won't die. Berlin's a big place. Where thousands live, there's room for one more.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Galatians 6:1 ESV

Do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity; better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away. Proverbs 27:10

Friendships make all the difference in surviving the inevitable crises of leadership.

What makes a good life?" According to Waldinger, the Harvard research project shows that "good relationships keep us happier and healthier.

Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. Ecclesiastes 4:9

There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off the shelf, rifle through the index to see if they're in there.

When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves.

Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington.

I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex.

Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches.

What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

My priority always has and will continue to be the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn who sent me to Congress to represent them. Their interests come before Washington, always.

As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

The strength of America is not in Washington.

It's time for all of us to unite across the state of Washington to build a working Washington. Let's get to work.