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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

One percent of all the sales that you make on their credit card are devoted back to the local community school that the customer chooses. That creates a lot of customer loyalty.

Daniel Boone

The import bill is too high. We should do our best to reduce imports and increase local output.

Ali Aoun

Things do go wrong, ... We had sent all these books to Nepal, but then we did an evaluation with local teachers.

John Wooden

The local BT network is one of the U.K.'s most important assets and my role is to ensure everyone has equal access to it.

Steve Robertson

These people are shopping like mad. This is good for the local economy.

John Meehan

If we're talking about saving lives, we're really talking about preparing local communities.

Harry Yeh

Local and provincial governance needs to be improved. There will have to be hard budget constraints.

Agost Benard

The bottom line is that the local government has the ultimate responsibility to its citizen's children.

Mark Saunders

I don't think the local charities have the resources to buy 5,000 cases of cards and stuff them in envelopes and hope someone will give five dollars.

Dave Edwards

It is going to make the local market inoperative and erect a strong barrier to the entry of foreign capital.

Gonzalo Alonso

The danger is not for the ecology alone, but for the local culture as well because the sex tourism culture of Phuket will be imported here.

Samir Acharya

It's about as local as you can get.

Bob Montgomery

It went really well. We were able to test a lot of the systems we have in place and most importantly our communication with our local health partners.

Leonard Guercia

The bulk of our moving is local moving. In fact, we only started interstate moving a little over a year ago.

Larry O'toole

We think this will pull in several more cowboys along with local cowboys.

Chris Harper

It's a local derby so, hopefully, we will get a good crowd and put on a display that will entice them to come back again.

Adam Jones

It was insane. To have some great local surfers out there with you made it even better.

Jake Kirschenbaum

This isn't a mandate but her suggestion the communities address this issue at a local level.

Joe Donovan

The growth has been very strong between IKEA, B&Q, even local brands like Homes Orient. It's very competitive.

Anna Kalifa

We again will be able to host great games without any cost to local taxpayers. We also promise a bid that will be distinctive in its approach compared to previous games.

Barry Sanders

During construction, we will always have it open to local traffic. It will still be a two-way road at the end of the day.

Stan Johnston

It means that, hopefully, there's going to be a lot of new tree sales generated in the local retail businesses, which is great for them.

Diana Cohen

I'm pleased to get some local flavor. It's good to have kids close. I hope they have a great experience playing ball and getting a great education.

Rocky Rees

We have had several complaints from local residents about the condition of the building.

Don Hudson

They instead will pay $10 million in local currency into a trust fund in Peru that will benefit conservation.

Meg Symington

It was annoying. I wasn't angry with our local bank because they were doing the best they could.

Sister Jean Abbott

There may be a point, if this storm decides to make landfall, that a county may decide it doesn't want anybody at the beach. But that's a local decision.

Renee Hoffman

He's a local guy who's not too far away, he knows about our situation, people have heard about him, and he's got the credentials for the head football position.

Jack Homko

Largely due to the fact that we didn't get approval from local officials.

James Mcintyre

The capacity of the land should drive decisions on density, which relies on local dispersion of waste water.

George Hawkins

I think it's important to support local authors and to have some variety to offer the community.

Heather Lennon

The Pakistan Muslim League and our allies have won the local bodies elections after a tough competition.

Sheikh Rashid

In Arizona, far more jobs are created than can be filled by the local population.

Tom Rex

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

Democratic Govjim Doyle

Governor Rell created the bipartisan Commission on Education Finance to find better, fairer ways of distributing state funds for local education. Everyone agrees that more fairness can be injected into the way grants are calculated, and Gov. Rell feels this Commission is the best approach for exploring all options.

Adam Liegeot

It's tough for the local banks to lend for longer than five years.

Richard Lark

As a local company, we are working to make sure that no Minnesotan who has enrolled in Part D through Blue Cross falls through the cracks.

Deborah Madson

No one believed that things that have been done on the national level could be done on the local level, but we have done it. No one else, in the Republican or Democratic campaigns, can catch us now.

Kahlil Byrd

We agreed to do a variety if things in the community, ... in addition to the tens of millions of dollars that had been allocated to contracts for local vendors in the development of the new ballpark.

John Mchale

Eventually I wouldn't mind getting some local bands or hosting karaoke on Thursday nights.

Anthony Bailey

Yep. Yep. Those are the big ones. The in-store idea is brilliant. I would assume you're gonna see partnerships with local clubs, local venues to give you that same thing.

Michael Bracy

We've had some very good players come out from local businesses. It's amazing how many good hockey players live in Summit County.

Ã…sa Armstrong

I like animals, but I'm not doing it because I'm an animal lover, ... It's upsetting to see so much death. I've gotten down because I'm always around something dead. I had to call on the local police to finish one deer off. That's bad.

Charles Brannon

When you apply for local scholarships, people know you, and they want to support their kids and their community.

Barb Macgillivray

I look back and realize I am not happy with what the local agencies are doing, but the state did worse.

Ryan Mckee

We're having a lot of local bands this year, ... Deeply rooted music, from deep in the Valley.

Andy Wells

I thought the local media outlets did a good job of covering it in advance.

Aaron Anderson

That's perhaps the most important thing. A good man can go have a good camp. Then he goes from a local recruit to a region or national recruit.

Darryl Page

This time, we really put a push on to get some of our local employers to go with us.

Liz Becher

When we learned he was coming, we asked him to do the demonstration and he was more than happy to. This is an extremely big deal because he is very well known and it could be a once in a lifetime opportunity for local residents.

Teresa Moiola

This fall is 100 percent Nasdaq. There are no local factors today.

Gabriel Jafet

We received a great response within the local business community. We are very grateful for their generosity.

Bonnie Castille

We're used to local control where local boards of education write curriculum, they determine opening and closing dates, they determine the holidays and so on.

Phil Fox

It is always fun. It is the coming of spring. I am extremely proud. This is a such a great local event.

Frank Cassidy

More and more data has to become available to provide these kinds of great offerings. These kinds of information will come from people around local areas contributing.

Jeremy Kreitler

This event is a maneuver to obscure the fact that this local government is potentially aiding those in this country illegally. The library should not place itself in that position.

Rep. Dave Schultheis

There is no local government infrastructure, no law enforcement or judicial authorities in Somalia.

Pottengal Mukundan

It's nice to have local control as we have been doing, but I don't think that's going to be a possibility.

Hank Hoffmeister

It's a nice partnership with a local developer who's extremely entrepreneurial.

Jason Westrope

Each local official donated a certain amount of time, some gave and hour, some gave two hours. Ken McKay actually donated the most time.

Sharon Willard

We've got to be prepared on the local level.

Alex Azar

We called everybody from local commissioners, zoning trustees, the PUCO. We've called the FCC.

Judi Bruck

Without their assistance, those games would not have been shown to local audiences and our phones would have rung.

Lou Morin

The local groceries are all out of broccoli, Loccoli.

Roy Blount, Jr.

There are lots of ways for people to get to know more about bats, and the best way is to find their local bat group.

Richard Dodd

What this is all about is freedom and flexibility for the local school community.

Suellen Reed

It's a way to help our own and those who come here in need. If we're not capable of responding at a local level, we can't help anybody else.

Larry Gispert

Local officials from Adams County wanted to have a clean bill so that it wouldn't get bogged down by requests from other counties.

Walter Brown

A railroad meant two things for the community. It allowed for marketing of local produce such as grain and livestock, and it allowed for direct entry of English and German immigrants into the community.

John Skinner

You don't have to increase the tax burden on local people to realize this.

Varoujan Hagopian

I did keep a local-only service for just that reason.

Gerry Waldron

It would have been extremely disruptive with the middle school's academic program, ... With the local decision, we were fine with that.

Robert Hale

It's possible that they didn't make hand axes because they didn't know how. But there's no good local source of flint, either. What we're probably looking at are river cobbles.

Christopher Stringer

It seems to be a pretty good deal for local shows. The guys are really looking forward to it.

Mark Chalupa

I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.

Josh Charles

There is no (full) Arabic Internet search engine on the market. You find so-called search engines, but they involve a directory search, not a local search. There's nothing available for overall Internet search.

Hermann Havermann

The response from local employers has been gratifying. We have a lot of fantastic companies attending. There is a wide variety for the employees to benefit from.

George Cunningham

We know that if it wasn't for our local customers and guidance from God, we wouldn't have anything. So, with a charitable attitude, we like to 'give back' whenever possible.

Sandy Buerk

Always allowed local policy-makers wide latitude in determining how best to achieve legitimate public goals.

John Paul Stevens

Times are difficult and challenging for the local workforce. We need to celebrate them.

Commissioner David Maple

Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities.

Chuck Grassley

I try to be respectful and get out of the way of the local candidates, making sure my activities don't district from their efforts. They deserve the right to campaign without distraction.

John Fernandes

You're competing against the guy across the street and so the market is set by the local competition in that area.

Alan Wright

Money to local businesses is very important.

Anji Bromley

Until around 2000, the lab did not do as good a job at promoting its research program as it does now. In the local community, there was a lot of concern.

Marshall Bloom

The launch of ITV Local is part of the emerging broadband strategy within ITV.

Lindsay Charlton

Local ownership there was critical, and it was crucial to Carl Lindner. The one overriding goal we had was to have local ownership.

Bud Selig

Half Moon Bay is becoming a recognized destination. We have been very, very pleased with the amount of local business too.

Paul Ratchford

It's great for the club. There's massive local interest in the game and there will be a good crowd.

Paddy Kirwan

This should be a local decision. The governor has always been a strong supporter of home rule.

Howard Duvall

This is putting even more pressure on the local farmers.

Iris Krebber

My advice is wait for the [industry] reports and strike up a dialogue with your utility at the local level.

Jon Arnold

I am giving local authorities the power to run licensing regimes in their own areas. They have the local knowledge, the know-how and are accountable to the local electorate.

Tessa Jowell

We have created over 15 millionaires in the local community since we started.

Patrick Pordage

We plan on donating it to our local school [which his children attend] to buy a computer.

Jordan Kimmel

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.

Dick Murphy

In those cases, I refer them to a physician. I like to develop a relationship with local doctors.

Warren Menard

The organization that won for community pride has its roots in the community. It is part of the local family. It has enhanced the pride and beauty of the area.

Mary Dickson

We intend on doing a local newscast with local talent. If we were to have commentary, it would be local commentary.

Ray Carter

We bypassed the local system because we have no faith that they?re going to do anything.

Aaron Robinson

It's easier than ever. But you have to have a niche and fill it. We've chosen to be the local chronicle, the local voice.

Jim Hayes

The local church is awakening to become a force that we have not seen before.

Tom Minnery

Waste oil is the largest byproduct of our business, and we use that byproduct to make something of value and contribute back to local communities.

Jeff Harvey

I mainly just wanted to bowl at home. It's fun to bowl at home. Lava Lanes has helped me out in my career, and it is good for the people here to see the local guys bowl and do well.

Bryon Smith

They are great — our local heroes.

Capt. Premek Kramerius

We had no local representation whatsoever. They just said this is what?s good for the listeners.

Bruce Baum

The construction boosted local employment, ... It boosted civic pride.

William Mills

It's the local and regional retailers who'll lead the way.

Kevin Farrell

It's a different medium so we want to experiment and have some fun and try to get people into local news in a different way.

Chris Sehring

Local coverage is primary. Our goal is informed, largely in-depth news features.

Dave Riek

Preliminary numbers show we are not getting even 5% of the local business.

Rodney Hendrix

We think the Civic Center is one of the greatest venues in the Midwest. We want to bring a first class card here with local fighters and we feel that we have done that.

Octavius James

They had seen him around during the trip. He was just a local guy in the bar and the casino where all the kids were just kind of hanging out.

Marcia Twitty

The impact on all local governments in the business of controlling and managing growth would be severely hampered. It would be devastating.

Tony Criscitiello

We've been briefed by the local organizing people.

Paul Decker

It's not just local government's responsibility, it's a national issue. The societal costs are everywhere.

Patrick Fleming

The local guys chased him off.

Bert Brantley

We came out of the gate intuitively thinking that you have to be local to connect with the audience. That it wasn't only about the language and the music, but sensibility...even though the brand can be the same everywhere.

Bill Roedy

It's good being here and getting a chance to play. It's great being a local boy. It brings more excitement to the team.

Bruce Williams

We would certainly like to capture as much of that as possible and support local jobs.

Phil Pantano

Being in the off-season, (Ironman) brings a lot of people into hotels and restaurants, and keeps our local merchants busy. It really gives us a boost.

Terry Goodman

I have heard of local authorities without a single engineer.

Rudolf Gouws

I surprised a local minister at the age of 10 when he asked me what I wanted to be and I told him that I wanted to be an eye and ear doctor.

Graeme Clark

We thought the potential was there because the community is growing so quickly, and that it would service a smaller community and keep it local.

Cheryl Johnson

Obviously they couldn't volunteer in southeast Asia, but they were inspired to help out and connect to their local community.

Jason Willett

Our overall position is that it is the responsibility of every business to follow the local laws of the countries in which they operate.

Porter Erisman

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

Michael Lewis

The decor is very traditional with a lot of local touches, local art and pottery, and other things of local interest.

Lewis Shropshire

This is like a shopping spree for local spaces and booking agents and arts administrators.

Lawrence Kampf

[It is the] jobs of groups like us to make sure that doesn't happen. Anytime there is a local screening, we get involved.

Bryan Mccann

It is common knowledge that much of the success for this event comes from John's ability to approach local businesses and corporations for sponsorship.

Thomas Briggs

Both teams are good. This was a good local game. It's a good rivalry.

Terry Piazza

I'm a local businessman and I graduated from this program, and I advertise in the New Times, I'm pulling all my advertising out of New Times. This is not good.

Dean Walker

Our preference is local. But I can't find any local organic rose farms.

Gerald Prolman

I think it would be a disadvantage to lose local control.

Roger Szendy

They hold meetings in a local tavern and don't have a lot of responsibilities.

Keith Fraser

It's risky for local companies to start at the high end. Their brands aren't strong enough.

Yale Zhang

If you have lots of small isolated populations, each one of them is more vulnerable to local extinction.

Brendan Kelly

I wasn't convinced, but I took my doctor's advice, plucked up the courage and went along to my local class.

Mary Bain

Has enough government on the books. I agree with Mr. Stracener that we don't need to broaden the scope of local government.

Brad Moore

We'd want to get a lot of local fighters on the card.

Lester Bedford

There's a local food system that you can be aware of.

Rachel Cusick

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

John Reynolds

There won't be much help from the federal or state level. Local response is going to be critical.

Chuck Hammer

Sarah's a local athlete and this is just our way of showing appreciation.

Laurie Grant

I'm a believer in local control, and this allows local governments to decide for themselves if it's worth a try.

Sen. Dave Aronberg

We would always advise state agencies to avoid holding events at venues that don't recognize or comply with state and local laws.

Saleem Cheeks

If you want your money to be used locally, you have to earmark it for local use.

Linda Mccoy

The interest from the local community is stronger and there are more acts coming from that community that are trying to break into the music business.

Neill Dixon

We are not bound by CUPE Ontario's decision to strike. Local 503 is not going on strike.

Jim Robillard

The local governments are responsible to their taxpayers. They're responsible to industry.

Cynthia Covell

I think it's going to affect all the small business in the local area; those big companies like that, that's kind of what they do.

Dave Summers

We are their local school. What we are trying to do is to give them the quality of education they deserve.

Phil Hearne

You don't have to RSVP to be in the audience, but we like to know who's going to be in the audience (because) we have promotional giveaways. It's not just an average local show.

Tamika Jackson

The ground-breaking in March will lead to over 80 homes ... to bring back local musical talent.

Kerri Driscoll

It's a very unfortunate and difficult situation we're in. We've given them information. We've talked to them. Local leaders have approached them to mediate this. We've done everything to avoid litigation.

Prabha Sankaranarayan

This service has created hundreds of new jobs and injected millions of dollars into our local economy.

Jacob Dipietre

It's their money. It comes from local revenues. They can do what they want with it. It's part of the local-control issue.

Tim Lockwood

Mr. Chambers did not have a local address, but he was an area resident. He was recently staying with different friends in the region.

Richard Carey

We will dispose of the water in consultation with the local authorities.

Philip Hughes

Local TV stations were hoping to ask him about it, but no photographer would take the assignment.

Kenny Rogers

We really wanted a local flavor, a unique flavor. We wanted to make it different than going out to the Monmouth Mall or the Bridgewater (Commons) Mall.

David Barry

We are very proud to be a part of the community here. Not only do we work with local businesses and agencies, we also have a responsibility to the community where we do business.

Gary Shields

Most of the victims were local labourers, including women workers with infants and small children.

Anil Kumar

One focus for economic development is the local unemployed and underemployed.

Jeff Walker

I am taking the goodies home. We're trying to hit the high points - you know, a little lobster, a candy apple, some local food and drinks.

Jill Anderson

French authorities should be encouraged for reporting this so quickly and this allows them, as well as local farmers, to take extra monitoring precautions.

Alex Thiermann

It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong.

Don Meredith

This is positive. The tax structure that exists today in Brazil, even for local investors, is an aberration.

Adauto Lima

We do a lot of ballet movements in class. So if you don't have a Crunch gym nearby, you can check out your local ballet studio.

Donna Cyrus

A lot of local residents are just happy to see something done. But it's sad that we (taxpayers) are paying for it.

Kurt Wieringa

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids would drive their cars, hang out with their convertibles and listen to music. That's how we got ''Backstreet.'' We put ''Boys'' on it, because no matter how old we get, we'll always be boys.

Kevin Richardson

Buying WorldCom would give local phone companies ammunition. WorldCom will give anyone a global presence with its infrastructure into the cities.

Pat Commack

We call it, 'From mainstream to the local scene,'.

David Gould

I was disappointed that I couldn't finish my round up because the course was just incredible, ... You can already see the local flavor in the course. It looked tremendous.

Joey Sindelar

We're very fortunate to have gotten about $50,000 every year in block grants. Any time we're able to get any kind of grant, we're reducing the burden on the local taxpayer.

Ralph Esposito

There was a lot of discussion about [Katrina], ... One of the most important things we can learn is how we need horizontal integration -- how to work together at the local level.

Christopher Cannon

We are hearing from a lot of counties that the local health department does not provide any kind of free eye exams for those who need that service.

Katherine Joyce

Our local sponsors always make the difference. Our booth sponsors were great and interesting. We had more door prizes than we have ever had.

Toni Barron

The whole thing is low key, low cost, very inexpensive, and at the dinner last year I had the best baked tuna I've had in my life. Some local folks got together to cook for us and did a great job. Just delicious.

Pat Gallagher

We are still fine-tuning the programming. But we are bringing local news back.

Julie Laird

I thought it would be a nice chance to see a lot of local bands perform.

Charles Lewis

Their primary purpose is to learn more about local government's function in a free-market economy.

Scott Wood

We are doing a lot for local people. Most people have a compassionate heart, but a lot don't have the connection. We can do more by coming together and being involved.

Doug Diven

One part (of the Earth Day celebration) is raising awareness of The Gardens and another part is informing the public on how they can enhance their own local environments.

Doug Conley

We'd like to influence them to let us have some say in what goes on and to convince them to hire local workers.

Doug Adams

As a local official, any tool that can be given to help effectively manage development is welcome.

Jay Fisette

We were very keen to get a big Kiwi . . . they are like gold as there are so few genuine big guys in the local scene. For Blake to now have citizenship makes him an even bigger asset.

John Davey

If a dealer wants to offer additional incentives to compete in that local market, he's certainly free to do so.

Kevin Mccormick

In deciding how best to approach the Chinese - or any - market, we must balance our commitments to satisfy the interests of users, expand access to information, and respond to local conditions.

Andrew Mclaughlin

When you look at the big events ... small local groups don't function on their own, ... It has to be a regional approach. Communication becomes critical to that, because if you can't talk, you can't cooperate.

Brendan Jones

There is a leadership vacuum in this community. I want my candidacy to be about participating in the local government, to participate in the community.

Kevin Mckeown

If you grew up in Washington, D.C., you also know that there is no entertainment industry in this town, particularly not any local.

Ian Mackaye

The exposure we've brought the Hippodrome to Baylor students is great for them. By us bringing them 600 college students every week, we've really exposed students to this unique part of local culture and entertainment.

Ben Dudley

Because if a guy comes in thinking they're going to be a hotshot, the local guys would eat him up.

Tony Ross

Were so far away they had no idea of the impact we were making. They saw the music as local music that would never break out.

Paul Wall

It's a good audience to reach. They're not all local. It gives us the opportunity to educate the person from New York.

Monica Taylor

He's a local favorite. I'm sure it's selling well because of his hometown ties.

Mark Schlosser

He's staying with the position he had before. There are local bubbles but no national bubble.

Allan H. Meltzer