Township Quotes

You've heard the expression of the people. That should mean something to the township board. - James Ramey

You're the city; no, you're the township; no, it's not the township, it's the county; no, you're not the county, it's Montara, and they just keep flopping back and forth between each other. - Jerry Harvey

You want to raise a lot of 'what ifs.' I can only deal with what we've gotten so far. Their agreement is their agreement. We're not a party to their agreement ... Townships never get involved in those agreements of sale. - John Rice

You have to have a police officer to accept a prisoner. The (Waterford Township) police department has been great in working with us. Safety is always a concern. That is always something the court is looking at. - Jennifer Marlinga

With the increased growth occurring in the township, it stands to reason that we will need more sheriff presence, rather than less. It would be much more expensive for us to maintain our own police department. - Ann Ulrich

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs. - Alexis De Tocqueville

While the subject matter doesn't have an impact on the daily concerns of people in Ewing Township, chairmanships give you bargaining power with members of other committees. There is a prestige factor involved. You become a part of a select group of House leaders. - Ross Baker

When the township of Edgewater is ready for our ferries, we'll be there. - Pat Smith

When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. - Mark Twain

What impresses me about Columbus is that they have been a single township government body for 150 years and they've had building and zoning ordinances for almost 50 years. They didn't need to do this until recently in terms of their long history. - Dean Johnson