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From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.

Government Country Late Decisions

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

Richard M. Nixon

Men Government Sure Too

In local government, it's very clear to your customers - your citizens - whether or not you're delivering. Either that pothole gets filled in, or it doesn't. The results are very much on display, and that creates a very healthy pressure to innovate.

You Government Pressure Your

The old line of thought used to be that local government is the bush leagues.

Government Thought Old Used

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.

Power People Government Doing

I think it is important the communities are listened to and that their voice is heard, particularly with local government boundaries more than parliamentary boundaries, because you are talking very much about communities. It can be a very emotive thing.

Nicola Sturgeon

You Government Think Voice

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

Government Promises Down Priorities

Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.

Future Society Government Building

Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails.

Government Consequences Gamble Local

As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.

Michelle Bachelet

Change Men Women People

When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.

Valerie Jarrett

Eyes You People Government

I shall work with Congress, civil society groups and local government executives who are convinced that charter changes are needed to enable the country to surmount the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Work Challenges Society Government

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Broken Corruption Government Rest

I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.

Government Job Think Duty

Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.

Government Like Big More

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

Good Government Pakistan System

I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.

Good People Government Know

My decision to appoint an inspector is not taken lightly. I hope it sends a strong signal that robust processes are in place to investigate allegations of failures in financial management and governance in local government.

Hope Decision Government Management

We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

You Government Way Conversation

I think we've always thought that it's important to have a positive relationships with local government rather than taking a confrontational kind of stance.

Nathan Blecharczyk

Positive Government Think Important

There is an interesting parallel between the 'Argo' story and '13 Hours' in that, around the world, we have 285 or so diplomatic outposts and the expectation that the local government will come to our aid if we ever come under attack on the sovereign property of the United States in an embassy.

Mitchell Zuckoff

Government World Story Will

I think more and more, in places like Benghazi, in places like Iran, we have to be asking the question, can we trust the local government to protect our people?

Mitchell Zuckoff

Trust People Government Think

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

Government Ready More Infrastructure

The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

Day Clouds Government Storm

At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.

Day Government End Of The Day End

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

Mary Augusta Ward

Women Growth Government Progress

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