Quotes of: Rural Keyword

People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural Ame...

Tom Vilsack

Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taki...

Tom Vilsack

I obviously disagree with the individuals who do not support rural America and do not support rural airports. Under their philosophy, maybe we shouldn't even be paving roads in rural America, because there are fewer people that drive on them.

Glenn Thompson

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

Dwight Yoakam

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.

Thomas E. Mann

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.

Collin C. Peterson

In Mexico, a network of government-operated rural convenience stores is offering banking services to rural communities.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

Larry McMurtry

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

Dan Quayle

He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.

The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.

Kit Bond

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ...

John Shimkus

But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you.

Tout Sweet: Hanging Up My High Heels For A New Life In Rural France

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our a...

Tom Vilsack

I realized some time ago that, while there are really, really high quality schools in urban India - my daughter attends one - there are very few high quality schools in rural India. And that is mostly because of the perception that there are not enou...

Shaffi Mather

People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.

No Place But Here: A Teacher's Vocation in Rural Community

It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.

Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

I am in Waterstones looking at all the chick lit rubbish on the shelves. In a fit of pique, I turn them round so they are facing the wrong way.

A Year in Lush Places: Tales from England's Rural Underbelly

… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having been taught how to freely speculate, how t...

Hearing in the Write

I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation o...

William Kamkwamba

Outside the door, a teller with a blue rosette chomps on an apple and asks for my number. She smiles a thank you and reveals a ghastly, gaping tunnel of masticated apple, edge with violent mauve lipstick seemingly applied by Bette Davis in What Ever ...

A Year in Lush Places: Tales from England's Rural Underbelly