20 Municipal Quotes for You to Enjoy

Voting is how we participate in a civic society - be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It's the way we teach our children - in school elections - how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice. Loretta Lynch

School Voting Election Society President Our Way Citizens Civic Voice Participate Importance How Children Elections Teach Municipal

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on. Joseph Pulitzer

Democracy Matter National State Way One-Way About Only Only One Way Individual Feet Conduct Get Going Informed Public Social Keeping Municipal

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. Al Smith

Christmas Before Local Hung Fireplace Over Empty Up Stocking Shoot Official Going Just Sane Santa Hard Santa Claus Who Municipal

Why do we fully tax some kinds of income from capital, like interest and dividends; partially tax other kinds like capital gains; defer tax on other kinds, like IRAs; and impose no tax at all on still other types of capital income, like interest on municipal bonds? This simply is not rational. These distinctions don't have any inherent logic. Bill Bradley

Other Defer Types Distinctions Logic Kinds Some Rational Dividends Simply Like Still Impose Any Tax Interest Gains Capital Capital Gains Inherent Fully Income Why Municipal Bonds

I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship. Bill de Blasio

Positive Relationship Unions Respectful Had Always Very Labor Municipal

Little Wooster, Ohio and gargantuan Dallas, Texas formed the municipal cocktail of my life up till age 18. That drab, weird little town and the glitzy big one shaped me for sure. David Berman

In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts. Karen DeCrow

People Minority Programs Ruled Proof Color Unconstitutional Supreme Supreme Court Court Were Contracts Wondered Want Even Municipal Receive

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties. Lincoln Steffens

When I was brought up in Sweden, there was a great opportunity for young people to learn how to act in our municipal theaters with their small companies. You would be under contract for eight months and have the summer free to take other opportunities. Max von Sydow

Great You People Opportunities Opportunity Free Young Other Our Summer Months Would Would-Be Brought Small Great Opportunity Take Learn How Contract Up Eight Theaters Young People Sweden Act Companies Municipal

Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world. Stellan Skarsgard

Art Good You World Cinema Country Half Films Cinemas About Small Small Country Smallest Over Towns House Because Climate Very Norway Size Sweden Even Shows Film Good Film Municipal

Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections. Suzanne Fields

Women World Else Rulers Papers Syria Arabia Restless More Scheduling Allowed Perhaps Terrified Limited Got Lebanon Walking Than Candidate Egypt Anywhere Anywhere Else Elections Even Whose Municipal Saudi Saudi Arabia

Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt. Thomas Frank

Considerably Corporate Those Borne Borrowing Rates Costly True Days Still Debt Than Interest Interest Rates Public Lower Municipal Bonds

By the mid-1950s, the young bond traders on the Street were becoming more and more of a fraternity. We organized informal luncheons every Thursday in an effort to educate financial writers, who knew next to nothing about municipal bonds. William E. Simon

Financial Young Nothing Every Fraternity About More More And More Writers Knew Thursday Becoming Educate Were Effort Informal Next Organized Who Street Municipal Bond Bonds

I filed the MSRB Reform Act, along with Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Doug Jones, because the board that oversees the muni-bond market is too secretive and too incestuous. Its membership shares the same DNA. That means the rulebook for municipal bonds is in the hands of a board that resembles a revolving door of longtime industry confederates. John Kennedy

Too Market Secretive Membership DNA Shares Along Longtime Industry Because Reform Hands Same Revolving Door Board Means Act Warren Resembles Municipal Elizabeth Bonds

In my first 100 days as Ontario's Minister of Transportation, I found a willing municipal partner in the City of Toronto that shares our goal of better, faster transit. Caroline Mulroney

Better First Partner Faster Our Willing Minister Toronto City Ontario Shares Days Goal Transit Transportation Found Municipal

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