Localism Quotes

“The best way to manage land is to turn it over to the people who are living on it.”

“In the quest for wholeness, we must not forget the importance of the small, the local, the particular.”

“There are two kinds of people in this city: those who have been here for a long time, and those who are moving in and ruining it.”

“This is a big country. You can't run it from Washington.”

“I believe in the power of neighborhoods.”

“All politics is local.”

“Art, to be art, must be local.”

“We cannot wait for Washington to solve our problems.”

“Production from local resources for local needs is the most rational way of economic life.”