Best towns & meetings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Democracy in America: Volumes I & II

“I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.”

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Book:A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay

Source: A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay

“I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

“Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident.”

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Book:The Rooster's Egg

Source: The Rooster's Egg

“If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States.”

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Author:Tim Walberg

“One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people.”

People Joy Towns Meetings Visiting Meeting New People

Author:Genghis Khan

“While President Bush was out of town Hillary Clinton stopped by the White House on Friday for an important meeting with her decorator.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”

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Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

““Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town-hall meeting in Tehran.” That’s telling ’em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they’d call her bluff.”

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Author:Mark Steyn

“The benefit of an open town hall meeting is one that you get to hear a lot of different views, and two it has credibility.”

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Author:John McCain

“The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued.”

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Book:Renewing the U.S. commitment to peace: September 26, 1983

Source: Renewing the U.S. commitment to peace: September 26, 1983

“I would love to see a revival of what we had against the war in the '60s - we could do these teach-ins on the internet, live and split screen, and have real in-depth debate between people that are on the "other" side of issues - nuclear, gun control, whatever. We could really be having a much more democratically involved and exciting debate with people emailing their questions and having a virtual town meeting.”

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Author:Bonnie Raitt

“New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont.”

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Author:Murray Bookchin

“I was sent the script [of Havenhurst ], and I was out of town at the time, so I did a site meeting with Andrew [Erin]. It was so bizarre. I was staying in a hotel at the time, and the night before the meeting with Andrew, I learned there was a ghost in the hotel.”

Night Towns Meetings Scripts Ghost Hotel Staying Site Bizarre Andrew Erin

Author:Julie Benz

“We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'”

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Author:Bill Maher

“Speaker Boehner needs to understand the urgency for reform. Until the House passes a bill that includes a pathway to citizenship, we will continue to be in the streets, at town hall meetings and on the phones, demanding justice for the 11 million aspiring Americans in our country.”

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Author:Eliseo Medina

“In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with all the inhabitants as members. In them the people wield immense influence over their magistrates and often carry their desires into execution without intermediaries.”

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Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

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