Jim Gray Quotes

I think all politics is local.

All politics is local.

You can't assume anything in politics. That's why every Saturday I walk around my district. I talk to the longshoremen in Charlestown. I listen to the people in East Boston and their concern on the airport noise. I walk down to the Star Market in Porter Square, and people tell me about meat prices.

I think you'll see a lot more people in the Valley get more involved in politics.

When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives.

You should absolutely get involved, especially those local politics like school board seats. That's really where America happens.

Local politics is just as important as national - and often easier to influence.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

Most politicians keep close tabs on what's happening back home and work assiduously to keep lines of communications open with the political players in their states or districts.

My federal, state, and local experience will allow me the opportunity to effectively represent the constituents of the Fourth District.

I remember my dad supporting everyone on the local and national level. I was pretty much born into it. I saw the importance of politics firsthand. It gave you a chance to be at the table.

I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

I lost my first run for office, but I developed a great love for grassroots politics.

Never you mind about the country, or about the state, or the city, or about the ward. You take care of your precinct.

[Referring to constituent services:] It's not the stuff that makes great news, but it's life and death to the people involved.

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

Democrats in 2020 can't just drive by red counties. You have to stop, get out of your car, ask for people's votes, and engage with them on issues that relate to their lives.

Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.

At the federal level, as a member of Congress, you have one vote out of 435, and in the Senate, it's one out of 100. So, the ability to get some stuff done exists as a much larger opportunity at a local level than in the federal government.

I didn't think politics had anything to do with our daily lives. I had never voted. Well boy I know now.

I know if that I'm not fighting for my home state, my home district, that other members who are out there fighting for their state, their district, they're not going to fight for New York for me.

I want to be high-profile with the average Angeleno. I want to be out there holding office hours on a curb in Boyle Heights.

I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.