Community Quotes

"We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools"

"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest"

Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady

"It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"In sum, as we enter the 21st century, the Euro-Atlantic community - North America and Europe together - has to face some tough challenges when it comes to improving our capability"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community"

George Mason, Statesman

"Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community"

Jay-Z, Musician

"In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward"

Bill Owens, Politician

"The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess"

A. Philip Randolph, Activist

"America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large"

Martin Van Buren, President

"The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large"

Martin Van Buren, President

"I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community"

Lee Tergesen, Actor

"There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good"

Teri Garr, Actress

"I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize"

Terrence Howard, Actor

"Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"I have heard all kinds of stories about telling employers about MS and I really don't know what the answer is. I am a private person, but I have found support by talking to fellow MSrs in the community"

Teri Garr, Actress

"It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost"

Sela Ward, Actress

"For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country"

Sela Ward, Actress

"A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together"

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director

"Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation"

Allyson Schwartz, Politician

"I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era"

Jay-Z, Musician

"When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there"

Everett Dirksen, Politician

"The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

"And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community"

Howard Coble, Politician

"The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

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