Melissa Mark-Viverito famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We need everyone to participate to make our city safe. And we know that the vast majority of immigrants are contributing positively to our economy and to our society here in the city of New York.
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We cannot govern in a vacuum. The way that - again, part of my leadership style is that we've got to really have voices, diverse voices, at the table, on any given issue, and really figure out what is the best path.
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Just because you choose, AG Sessions and Trump, to, whole cloth, say that immigrants don't belong here and you are racist and you want to implement those policies, doesn't mean that New York as a city is going to enforce those policies. We have a different approach. And we believe that we are a welcoming city, and we support those who want to help us build this city.
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We have to change laws. We have to change our approach to policing and incarceration in general. But we can get the population to a point where we can then go to the community-based facility models, where people should be able to await their trial dates, or if you're in jail for a year or less, if you have some sort of time that you have to spend in jail, that you can do it closer to your networks. Your family can visit you. You can talk about other ways of having people complete their time.
-- Melissa Mark-Viverito
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
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I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.
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The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.
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Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.
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Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.
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Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.
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help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.
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Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.
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