Council Quotes

• The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements using CCTV – especially if they’re on foot. Part of the problem is that the cameras all belong to different people for different reasons. Westminster Council has a network for traffic violations, the Oxford Street Trading Association has a huge network aimed at shop-lifters and pickpockets, individual shops have their own systems, as do pubs, clubs and buses. When you walk around London it is important to remember that Big Brother may be watching you, or he could be having a piss, or reading the paper or helping redirect traffic around a car accident or maybe he’s just forgotten to turn the bloody thing on.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Remember
  • Problem
  • Forgotten

• Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Nothing
  • Canada
  • Council

• My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

  

  Robert Wilson
  • People
  • Capital
  • Dollar

• Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Members
  • Council
  • Membership

• I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Fashion
  • British
  • Honoured

• I polled members of this council separately and it's generally thought we have to work together. But it was a lack of careful consideration that got us into the situation we're in today.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Work
  • Together
  • Today

• Our position is that the (Iran) dossier should be referred to the council.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Position
  • Council
  • Dossier

• As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of those who had gone before, were all up there, and I could visualise, I could hear voices and amongst those voices was the voice of my grandfather saying, 'It's alright now boy, you are finally in the council with the Australian Elders. Everything is now going to be alright.'

  

  Neville Bonner
  • Grandfather
  • Alright
  • Elders

• You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • England
  • Lips
  • Eloquence

• We want the public to feel ownership in the process. We have to look at our finances. We have $1.5-million to work with. We are operating under two constraints -- time and money. If the public comes back with more (money for other options), it's up to council to approve it. Council is an integral part of the process.

  

  Doug Jackson Ambrosia
  • Ownership
  • Approve
  • Operating

• Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline Kennedy, but we do know and have - this is not against somebody, this is for somebody who we know has had a proven record. It's 16 years in the House, 10 years on the City Council of New York City, that she has shown her determination to pass legislation. She is - she knows how a legislature works.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Why
  • She
  • House

• Doing so this month in the context of the Council's ongoing process seems appropriate and reasonable.

  

  Walter Frederick Walker
  • Month
  • Reasonable
  • Council

• The sign says 'Welcome to Lancashire', it doesn't say 'Welcome to the administrative unit of Lancashire County Council - that would be all right.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Right
  • Council
  • Lancashire

• I've known Carolyn [Maloney] for years, by the way. I knew her when she was on the City Council and knew her when she was - when she was running, and we endorsed her very early when she ran for Congress, yet I didn't know some of the stories in here of herself and her struggle, and - and she makes a very - you know, it's - it pulls your heart as well as - but it's very practical.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Heart
  • She
  • Running

• As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

  

  William Wycherley
  • Action
  • Hard
  • Wit

• It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect.

  

  George Washington
  • Universe
  • Firsts
  • Aids

• If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Habit
  • Gang
  • Long Way

• They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

  

  Richard Adams
  • Council
  • Not Afraid

• I am really enthusiastic about my new council position because part of my satisfaction in life is feeling like I have done something. With this responsibility I hope I can accomplish things for the City of Williamstown and the people.

  

  Barbara Lewis
  • Hope
  • Responsibility
  • Satisfaction

• The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Security
  • Soviet
  • Founding

• I am delighted to be here in these new Council on Foreign Relations headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it's good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • New York City
  • State Department
  • Foreign Relations headquarters

• There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger.

  

  Arjuna Ranatunga
  • Crime
  • Cricket
  • Council

• We have been brought together by a common vision to form a new global alliance. We are the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. Ours is an alliance of prayer, education, and healing for our Mother Earth, all her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come.

  

  Agnes Baker Pilgrim
  • Vision
  • Prayer
  • Council

• Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Justice
  • Hearts
  • Council

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