Councils Quotes

You are a separate branch of government. You don't rely on the city manager like other city councils, where the city manager really represents the council. - George Stewart

World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world. - George Schultz

We want to bolster the rights of the works councils by allowing job alliances at company level. The people we want to weaken are the labor-union officials. - Guido Westerwelle

We have to wipe out Bushism itself, before it wipes us out. That means showing up and voting smart in every election, big and small. I think that in many ways that, the local elections are even more important than the national elections. It's the mayors and the city councils and county comissioners and the school boards and the legislators that decide how to spend the money they fleece off of us in taxes. - Jello Biafra

We had interaction with so many people: governor's office, mayors, economic development councils. We even got a letter from a mother. - Douglas Merrill

We demand that the Minister of Local Government and Urban Development immediately cease interfering with elected councils and take immediate steps to restore democracy in local government. - Trudy Stevenson

We are targeting high school student councils to help spread the word as well as our campaigns. Brochures are being distributed to all advisors at all public and private high schools in Ohio. - Rod Hissong

Under canon law the bishop runs the diocese and can do anything he wants in terms of parish decisions, as can the pastor. That is church law all the councils, bodies, are advisory groups. If push comes to shove, the bishop is the boss. But (incorporation) is not a bad move. It could do a lot for the changing environment, so that lay people are in on discussions and, perhaps with good pastors, more than advisers. - Robert McClory

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions. - John Ruskin

This has happened since the arrival on the scene of councils run by the MDC. But, in every case, I can confidently say the allegations are just trumped up. We are now two years down the line of the commission in Harare but the situation in Harare has not improved, instead it has worsened. - Trudy Stevenson