Local Involvement Quotes

I'm working for my state first.

I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there.

The campaign can’t be run by 100 outsiders.

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community. No rule says that only the local banker or car dealer can organize the program to raise supplemental funds for the public library or send the high school band on a well-earned special trip. Participating in community affairs, with time more than dollars, is good business from day one. It gets your name around, adds to your distinctiveness, and, best of all, makes you an attractive employer (which is the key to sustained success).

I firmly believe that volunteering is good for our society and brings communities together. It's a fantastic opportunity to get involved in your local community, to meet new people and to gain a sense of pride and achievement.

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 feel like I'm a part of the Boston community.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.

Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you can demarcate a national park, but if the people outside want to go creeping into a forest you really can't stop them. They've got to get a benefit.

Corporations in communities need to be better neighbors.

For those who can, one of the things to do is not to move. To stay put. That doesn't mean don't travel; it means have a place and get involved in what can be done in that place. That's the only way we're going to have a representative democracy in America. Nobody stays anywhere long enough to take responsibility for a local community.

I want to do my bit for my city and my country.

Programs have to be developed by the people in the community.

We've had experience of involvement in a local scene, and it was a good one, and we've learned a lot from it, and I don't have any need to join into that ever again. It's too counterproductive to writing music and performing to the best of your abilities. It's okay when you're 20 years old - you're getting out there and you're learning - but not when you're 30 years old.

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

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory.

I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live.

The most powerful thing we can do is get involved locally. Help our local community and become community activists in our own smaller circle.

The market is good when the local people are in it and believe in it and support it. That's what I want.

Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out.

The people who care the most about the folks in your community are living in the community. They don't live in Washington, D.C.

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.