Famous Quotes & Sayings

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Alan Autry

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

Alan Autry

We want them to be productive in the community,

We want to support our community even though we are not illegal, but we come from an immigrant community.

Jim Knight

We want to show our kids that we love them, we care, and we want to get involved in their lives. One thing we want everyone to remember is this is not a JFK or high school problem. This is a community problem.

David Allen

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community...

Dave Gahan

I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

David Korten

The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

David Korten

There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to create their own credit, or their own money, in response to their own needs. We still depended on banks, but it was a much more democratic process.

David Saperstein

AIDS destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas of the world, threatens to destabilize the social, cultural, and economic fabric of entire nations...

Catherine Helen Spence

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

Carter Heyward

We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely "outside myself."

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

Louis de Bernieres

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

Mark Latham

The one thing we're going to have to have while making this transition is patience. Our community is going to need to be patient because a lot of times we are going to be playing schools two times the size we are.

Wesley Clark

The positive and negative indications right now are that Milosevic has made a half compromise and he is still defying the will of the international community on other issues,

Amy Wright

The perceived conduct of Vision House owner Michael O'Sullivan is counterproductive for offenders under community supervision, so I must relocate this small group to more appropriate housing.

The point is to show the entire community that without us many things would stop.

We are proud of the extraordinary efforts of the more than 225,000 Red Crossers who put their day-to-day lives on hold to selflessly help their neighbors in need. Some of them lost everything in these storms, yet they put the needs of their community before their own.

We struggled mightily with this RFP but it will direct a consultant not to lead a study but facilitate the community's study. We're not just giving lip service to community involvement.

There are concerns, of course, about the danger to the community and livestock. We are trying to find their movement pattern.

Bobby Rush

There are communities that are moving forward now because (the Community Reinvestment Act) ... was the economic engine.

We still need community support. We want out-of-towners to see that everyone is involved in this.

We're not going to suggest what we're proposing is consistent with the existing community.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.

David Brin

The village is coming back, like it or not.

Barney Frank

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Audre Lorde

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

Armstrong Williams

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

Arnold J. Toynbee

So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

Antonio Villaraigosa

We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,.

Jim Jarmusch

Wayne, New Jersey, ... And shooting in it was very depressing. Because everyone has the same stuff, you know? The same TV, the same cars, their kids dress the same. But then the people in the community were really, really nice to us. Very enthusiastic and kinda lovely. But before that human connection, it was just depressing to me, to be in that kind of hermetically sealed community. I think a lot of people actually live in places like that, more and more.