Nafessa Williams Quotes

I can't believe the sense of community here, the amount of pride the people who run this city have in Las Vegas. They are wonderful.

People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.

The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back.

I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.

I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston.

Oakland's got a lot of character.

When people look at me, ask me, or say something to me, they know I'm Philly.

I think living in Baltimore and being a part of the community and trying to be part of as many communities as possible within the city, the best thing that anyone can do in Baltimore is just to be a part of it and contribute to it and to not see it as...A lot of people from outside the city see this city for its blight and I feel like people who live within the city do the opposite and see this city for what defines it as, in my mind, the most beautiful place to live.

Democracy should be home grown.

A baseball franchise belongs to the people of the city.

The New Englander is attached to his township because it is strong and independent; he has an interest in it because he shares in its management; he loves it because he has no reason to complain of his lot; he invests his ambition and his future in it; in the restricted sphere within his scope, he learns to rule society; he gets to know those formalities without which freedom can advance only through revolutions, and becoming imbued with their spirit, develops a taste for order, understands the harmony of powers, and in the end accumulates clear, practical ideas about the nature of his duties and the extent of his rights.

I like people in the cities, in the States and in the Nation to ask themselves now and then: 'What can I do for my city?' not 'How much can I get out of my city?' I like people to speak now and then in the same devotion to State and Nation.

It was an amazing feeling of now being a larger part of your state

Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life.

The health of our republic depends on shared principles like the First Amendment, but it is also built on the Teddy Roosevelt-like vigor of its citizens and local self-reliance.

Cleveland is my hometown.

A community belongs to those who take ownership of it.

For me to pretend I'm the keeper of the small town mentality or that's all I'm interested in is wrong.

I'm proud to be able to represent Bellevue and the Offutt and StratCom communities.

I'm so much of a proud Detroiter.

I just wear the uniform of the city I'm from.

They always say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, but I say that about Cleveland.