Local Preference Quotes

I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.

I prefer the things around town. I'm not one for going out of town too much.

The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.

I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.

I respect the ones who make it and leave their home base, but I'm good in Colombia.

I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.

I hate for people to think that I have only played for West Ham because I am the local lad and people make allowances for me.

I have nothing against President McKinley whatsoever, but I would rather have this peak be called by the name it has gone by for centuries by Alaskans than a man who never set foot in our state. This is the tallest mountain in North America, and we deserve to have this Alaskan landmark bear an Alaskan name.

I understand and accept that for the people of Munich, only the treble will do.

My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolved from caves and clans and tribes, and therefore, we as a species care more about the things that are local to us than we care about the things that are 'over there' from us.

[N]ine-tenths of the people who are in the Home Service don't want to go abroad. They are people who live in Washington and have gotten acquainted with the jungle of this town and know their way around.

Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis.

I'd love to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I'm a South Jersey kid, and I was very excited when the Phillies won the World Series, and I'd like to stay home.

I don't like all suburbs, just like I don't like all parts of cities.

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.

Very, very rarely will I leave San Antonio to speak somewhere else. I used to do that, and it just about wore me out, so I quit traveling.

I don't care about the brand. I care about the country.

The tar of my country is better than the honey of others

When there's work to be done in Colorado, for Colorado, we should look to skilled Coloradans first.

The Brits like to see their local chefs do well - when a foreign chef comes in - even Joel Robuchon - they are harshly critical.