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Mayors are accountable. Local governments are accountable.
Eric Garcetti / Mayor Of Los Angeles
Mayors
Accountable
Governments
Local Governments
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I hope that we increasingly shift power to local governments.
Zephyr Teachout / Law Professor
Governments
Increasingly
Local Governments
Shift
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More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
Albert Bushnell Hart / Historian
Emphasis
England
Thrown
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Thus
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We need to focus on the speed with which local governments can work with businesses.
Muhtar Kent / Executive
Focus
Speed
Businesses
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Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
Bobby Scott / U.s. Representative
Education
Government
Function
Important
Today
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Perhaps
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Government pensions are among the largest cost drivers for state and local governments.
Bruce Rauner / Governor Of Illinois
Drivers
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Largest
Local Governments
Pensions
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As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.
Elton Gallegly / Former U.s. Representative
Former
Decisions
Governments
Local
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Mayor
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The federal, state, and local governments are involved in virtually every aspect of business.
Luther Strange /
Aspect
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Virtually
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I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.
Don Nickles / Former United States Senator
Government
Believe
Roles
Believes
Governments
Local
Local Governments
Proper
Strongly
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State and local governments in New Jersey are a critical line of defense in the effort to respond to COVID-19.
Mikie Sherrill /
Jersey
New Jersey
Respond
Governments
Local Governments
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Over 17 years, I took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anybody who treated anybody unfairly.
Tim Kaine / United States Senator
Anybody
Banks
Estate
Governments
Landlords
Local
Local Governments
Real Estate
Took
Unfairly
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Our elected representatives wisely enacted laws to protect our state and local governments from undue outside influence.
Eric Schneiderman / New York Attorney General
Representatives
Governments
Local Governments
Wisely
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We'd never be talking about Senator McGrath saying anything about state and local governments should be going bankrupt. I'd never even think about it.
Amy Mcgrath /
Senator
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The United States should propose partition in Syria. Assad can keep what he controls, and the rebels can form local governments and establish a new entity.
Jamal Khashoggi /
Entity
Partition
Propose
Syria
Establish
Governments
Local Governments
Rebels
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Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development.
Cliff Stearns / Former U.s. Representative
Court
Economic Development
Entity
Private Property
Supreme
Supreme Court
Thursday
Backed
Governments
Local
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While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.
Stephanie Herseth /
Carrots
Congress
Court
Sticks
Supreme
Supreme Court
Governments
Local
Local Governments
Overturn
Prevent
Provide
Taking
Unfairly
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The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
Rand Paul / United States Senator
Government
African American
Country
Crow
Jim Crow
Jim Crow Laws
Racism
Repression
Rose
Laws
Bigoted
Governments
Jim
Local
Local Governments
Product
The History Of
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By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state.
Roy Barnes / Attorney
Creating
Framework
Georgia
Metropolitan
Planning
Working Together
Affects
District
Governments
Issue
Local
Local Governments
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The health, safety and prosperity of our communities are our top priorities, and state and local governments provide critical services that protect and serve Maine people.
Sara Gideon /
Maine
Safety
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Local Governments
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Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector.
Elaine Chao / Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Accelerate
Declaring
Johnson
Private Sector
Governments
Local Governments
Lyndon
Sector
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Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.
Kit Bond /
Coast
Coast Guard
Customs
Federal Government
Government Will Never
Federal
Governments
Guard
Local
Local Governments
Outsource
Owned
Ports
Provide
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Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free.
Paul Allen / Philanthropist
Failure
Company
Began
Governments
Local
Local Governments
Objectively
Pick
Provide
Services
Speaking
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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
Sam Graves /
Certainty
Demand
Long Term
Significance
Volume
Effectively
Execute
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Local Governments
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The federal government gets a lot press, and that's what the media talks about, but your state and local governments, in many ways, have more impact on your life than the federal government does.
Kane / Professional Wrestler
Federal Government
Impact
Media
Life Government Your
Gets
Governments
Local
Local Governments
Press
Talks
Ways
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These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives.
Charles Bass / Former United States Representative
Children
College
Independent
Manage
Workplace
Attend
Designed
Enrolled
Governments
Programs
Local
Local Governments
Prepare
Successfully
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In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.
Spencer Bachus / U.s. Representative
Government
Block
Community
Development
Housing
Storm
Communities
Construct
Funds
Governments
Grant
Introduced
Local
Local Governments
Passed
Shelters
Tornado
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When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.
David Souter / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Affirmative
Judicial
Officers
Ordinary
Executive
Governments
Impose
Local Governments
Obligations
Powers
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Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.
Bill Dedman / Journalist
Hazards
Maps
Discourage
Governments
Guarantee
Landslide
Local Governments
No Guarantee
Prevent
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There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.
Andrew Cuomo / Governor Of New York
New York
Government
Lighting
Special
Ten
Thousand
Village
Water
Case
District
Count
Governments
Local
Local Governments
Missed
Sewer
York
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In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership structure is more shaded toward protecting the financial professionals who broker the deals.
John Kennedy /
Deals
Financial
Interest
Investors
Membership
Practice
Protect
Public Interest
Structure
Theory
Broker
State
Public
Governments
Local
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Professionals
Supposed
Toward
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Clean energy jobs can exist across the state and create micro-economies to support struggling communities. Local governments can use advanced energy to retrain workers and create local jobs, and the positive economic impacts can remain local.
Stacey Abrams /
Clean
Clean Energy
Workers
Advanced
Communities
Exist
Governments
Impacts
Local
Local Governments
Remain
Struggling
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Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Government
Arise
Boss
Citizens
Democratic
Democratic Ideals
Devoted
Ideals
Inevitable
Nevertheless
Believers
Bosses
Constantly
Dictators
Governments
Local
Local Governments
Oppose
Prosper
True Believers
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Having billions of dollars immediately available to plug budget holes without raising taxes is very appealing. And to the delight of Wall Street investors, state and local governments often fail to ask the important questions or consider the long-term impact.
Dick Durbin / United States Senator
Available
Billions
Delight
Holes
Important Questions
Investors
Long Term
Raising Taxes
Taxes
Appealing
Billions Of Dollars
Budget
Governments
Local Governments
Plug
Raising
Wall Street
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In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service. The simple reason, according to the 176-page study: lack of competition in the market. The culprit: local governments.
Marvin Ammori /
Culprit
According
Report
Charge
Commission
Dismal
Explained
Governments
Local Governments
Prices
Released
Simple Reason
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As a candidate for Congress, I proposed a federal infrastructure bank to help local governments fund badly needed projects, including ones in my district. We need to repair and expand our crumbling transportation systems by creating many good-paying construction jobs.
Raja Krishnamoorthi /
Construction
Crumbling
Fund
Infrastructure
Transportation
Badly
Bank
Candidate
District
Expand
Good-Paying
Governments
Local Governments
Proposed
Repair
Systems
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While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.
Solomon Ortiz / U.s. Representative
Government
Believe
Condemning
Domain
Economic Development
Eminent Domain
Plans
Public Good
Good Power Believe
Eminent
Execute
Governments
Implement
Local
Local Governments
Purposes
Serve
Solely
Specifically
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It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.
Mark Zandi /
Jobs
Home
Business Owners
Collateral
Enthusiastic
Fall
Owners
Prospects
Revenue
Small Business
Small Business Owners
Disappears
Falling
Forced
Governments
Homes
Households
Programs
Loans
Local
Local Governments
Prices
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We are working with the communities in building institutional relationships with local governments and businesses to create ways to get value from the Amazonian area in order to keep the forest as the forest. This makes sense for us from the perspective of climate change and of poverty.
Guilherme Leal /
Climate Change
Perspective
Poverty
Businesses
Communities
Forest
Governments
Institutional
Local
Local Governments
Relationships
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The Paycheck Protection Program created in the CARES Act did help many small businesses keep employees on their books in the early days of the pandemic. But many small firms are ailing now; the hospitality industry has been decimated; and state and local governments are shedding workers.
Annie Lowrey /
Hospitality
Protection
Cares
Early Days
Employees
Governments
Local Governments
Pandemic
Paycheck
Shedding
Small Businesses
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As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.
Karin Slaughter / Writer
Citizens
Demand
Generations
Prioritize
Taxpayers
Voters
Adult
Invest
Communities
Contribute
Street
Governments
Grow Up
Libraries
Local
Local Governments
Properly
Served
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I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.
David Cameron / Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Government
Labour
Target
Thinking
Begin
Governments
Local
Local Governments
Processes
Targets
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A wide range of possible fiscal policy tools and approaches could enhance the cyclical stability of the economy. For example, steps could be taken to increase the effectiveness of the automatic stabilizers, and some economists have proposed that greater fiscal support could be usefully provided to state and local governments during recessions.
Janet Yellen / Economist
Example
Greater
Increase
Policy
Range
Stability
Steps
Support
Taken
Tools
Wide
Approaches
Automatic
Possible
Cyclical
Economists
Enhance
Fiscal
For Example
Governments
Local
Local Governments
Proposed
Provided
Wide Range
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