Community Quotes

"In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people"

Moshe Katsav, Statesman

"I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!"

Elaine Paige, Musician

"The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places"

Warren Rudman, Politician

"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace"

Margaret Chan, Public Servant

"Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community"

Clifford Stoll, Author

"There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity"

George Saunders, Writer

"When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

"I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans"

Jim Walsh, Politician

"The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like"

John Barton, Poet

"I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level"

Stephen Lewis, Politician

"Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out"

Michael K. Powell, Politician

"Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

"When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large"

Jack Kemp, Politician

"I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy"

Mercedes McCambridge, Actress

"We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming"

George Murray, Poet

"It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good"

Cornel West, Educator

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

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy"

Arthur Hertzberg, Theologian

"We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source"

Mitchell Baker, Lawyer

"You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects"

Emma Lazarus, Poet

"The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven"

Samuel Hopkins, Clergyman

"In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars"

Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant

"The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community"

Tea Leoni, Actress

"I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser"

Richard Shelby, Politician

"Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it"

Slobodan Milosevic, Criminal

"I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

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