Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.
~By William P. Leahy ~
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.
~By Henry Hampton ~
Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
~By Pat Brown ~
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.
~By Warren Rudman ~
Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.
~By Alan Autry ~
In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.
~By Bill Owens ~
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
~By Helen Clark ~
The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
~By Ben Nicholson ~
They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.
~By Robert Scheer ~
How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.
~By Otto Schily ~
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
~By James Inhofe ~
The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
~By Gary Cooper ~
Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community.
~By Maynard Jackson ~
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
~By Washington Irving ~
As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
~By Joe Biden ~
There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.
~By Linda M. Godwin ~
I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.
~By Jan Egeland ~
But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.
~By Li Peng ~
Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.
~By Norman Lear ~
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
~By Herbert Prochnow ~
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
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.
~By Samuel Hopkins ~
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.
~By Jay Rockefeller ~
We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.
~By John Boehner ~
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
~By Kofi Annan ~
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I've always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I've always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.
~By David Morse ~
Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.
~By Said Musa ~
I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
~By Laura Innes ~
I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.
~By Sigourney Weaver ~
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.
~By Stephen Lewis ~
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.
~By Mel Carnahan ~
I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.
~By Leonard Orr ~
The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
~By Ricky Martin ~
I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.
~By Pam Grier ~
Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
~By Tony Blair ~
We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.
~By Peter Hain ~
That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.
~By Snoop Dogg ~
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.
~By Jon Porter ~
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
~By Beth Henley ~
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them.
~By Tom Tancredo ~
The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
~By Ed Smith ~
A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
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.
~By Thomas Menino ~
In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
~By Jimmy Smits ~
I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.
~By Jennifer Garner ~
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.
~By John Doerr ~
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
~By Dorothy Day ~
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
~By Barry McCaffrey ~
The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.
~By Mark Foley ~
When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
If your support the community, they will support you.
~By Jerry Greenfield ~
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.
~By Jim Walsh ~
If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something.
~By Mike Farrell ~
I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.
~By Dominique de Villepin ~
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
~By Hans Kung ~
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.
~By Peter Garrett ~
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
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.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.
~By Sela Ward ~
Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.
~By Meg Whitman ~
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
~By Adam Schiff ~
That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
~By Studs Terkel ~
There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.
~By Jeanne Shaheen ~
I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
~By Christa McAuliffe ~
Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already.
~By Michael Burgess ~
Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.
~By Javier Solana ~
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