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Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut. -- Frank Lautenberg
Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana. -- Meredith Whitney
AFSCME stands for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. -- Judy Woodruff
Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public. -- David Hume
I've always had a very positive relationship with the municipal labor unions - a respectful relationship. -- Bill de Blasio
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
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
There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really careful about knowing what cash flows are supporting your investments. -- Meredith Whitney
I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government - whether it be municipal, provincial, or even nation-to-nation relationships with aboriginal governments. -- Justin Trudeau
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
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
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
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
Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement. -- Rand Paul
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
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac. -- Umberto Eco
In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled. -- Tristram Stuart
My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged. -- Jimmy Wales
You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China. -- Michael Bloomberg
In Rio we built a Center of Operations, a situation room that gathers information from municipal departments and allows us to manage and help decision-making. I can check the weather, the traffic and the location of city's waste collection trucks. Each of 4,000 buses in the city has a camera connected to the situation room. -- Eduardo Paes
As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005. -- Thomas Frank
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. -- Winston Churchill
There's not a doubt in my mind that you will see a spate of municipal-bond defaults. -- Meredith Whitney
Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established. -- Thomas Jefferson
The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it. -- Louis D. Brandeis
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. -- John Quincy Adams
Those communal areas have got elected municipalities, which have got to do their work as, as fully, democratically elected municipal councils. -- Thabo Mbeki
In my life mission is everything.. Even if i was a municipal chairman, I would have worked as hard as a CM -- Narendra Modi
Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible... -- Mark Twain
With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions to a drought that seemingly has no end. -- Marc Levine
I just wanted to be an ordinary girl, married to a man who would provide me with a municipal tap, and three meals a day, while I cooked and cleaned for him. -- Rasana Atreya
Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to car pollution to nuclear radiation to most municipal tap waters. -- David Wolfe
Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds. -- Will Rogers

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