City Council Quotes - Page 2

• Your projects can often demonstrative new and innovative approaches that can be supported and eventually replicated with greater support from the public sector. Showing up and speaking up at city council and state legislature hearings are essential, but so is the project work.

  Mark Winne

  Cities, Speaking Up, Support

  "Outlook: The Futility of Food Banks". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2007.

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• I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.

  Alan Chambers

  Gay, Rights, Cities

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• I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Government, Cities, Joining

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• A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

  Stephen Hawking

  Reality, Cities, Views

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• There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Country, School, World Religions

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