Municipalities Quotes

#1. I'm very happy that John Tory won. We need a mayor of Toronto that will work with the municipalities of the Greater Toronto Area. We are the economic engine of Canada and we're not operating on all cylinders by any means.

Hazel McCallion

#2. Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#3. Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for 'special entities' such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market.

Daniel L. Doctoroff

#4. The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw evidence of the tiny brick houses that the incontinent municipalities, Voorschoten and Leidschendam and Rijswijk and Zoetermeer, pooped over the rural spaces surrounding The Hague.

Joseph O'Neill

#5. Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.

Howard Schultz

#6. Even the classic American main street, with its mixed-use buildings right up against the sidewalk, is now illegal in most municipalities. Somewhere along the way, through a series of small and well-intentioned steps, traditional towns became a crime in America.

Andres Duany

#7. Politicians and bureaucrats are the new upper class in Norway. It is an upper class that is growing by an increasing number of top-paid politicians in municipalities and counties. They let the people suffer, but let themselves go free.

Carl I. Hagen

#8. The American revolution broke out, and the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people, which had been nurtured in the townships and municipalities, took possession of the State: every class was enlisted in its cause; battles were fought, and victories obtained for it, until it became the law of laws.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#9. These urban provinces, new to the American scene, possess greater economic, social, and cultural unity than most of the states. Yet, subdivided into separate municipalities...they face grave difficulties in meeting the essential needs of the aggregate population.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.

#10. We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions ... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)

Desmond Tutu

#11. And to whom were these bundles of unrecognizably mashed-up mortgages ultimately sold? Quite often, to you and me. Our pension funds, municipalities, and money-market accounts were made up largely of these mortgage-backed securities.

Douglas Rushkoff

#12. Nice people sometimes finish last but they are always the winners who take it all in the end.

Abigail George

#13. At first I wondered why the room felt so safe. Then I realized it was because there were no windows.

Sylvia Plath

#14. In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

Eddie Murphy

#15. I'm not a horror guy, it's not my thing, but I respect it a lot. I know how hard it is to make, especially to make good.

Jonathan Tucker

#16. Oftentimes they are seen swimming around the surf zones and can swim very close to the shoreline.

Lisa Evans

#17. Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.

Stephen Hawking

#18. It's OK to feel sad, cry, be who you are. If you are happy smile. If you are sad, cry. This is the beauty of life. Allow yourself to feel it

Brian E. Miller

#19. That's the hate they're giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That's Thug Life

Angie Thomas

#20. Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

Claire Danes