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We're taking back our parks for our families, children and all park users. All of the public should be able to enjoy safe, clean and healthy parks.


Les Chang

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DEBORAH SCOTT In the past, our tradition was to rename parks only for an individual related to the life of the par...
WARNER JOHNSTON I certainly don't want them in our parks and one of those parks happens to be in my ward. Let's face...
COUNCILMAN DAVE KUCHERER It's all part of smart growth, ... It's accessible to transportation, shopping, schools, parks. . ....
ANNE WILSON The dream pool is pushed out in the open and the dappled depths of our imagination become a uniforml...
ELISABETH BEAZLEY Our goal was to be able to build a park where all children could play together.
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BERNADETTE CASTRO We're looking at all the state parks throughout the system, because they all have needs. It would ta...
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JAY RASULO The San Diego region in many ways is defined by our relationship with the ocean. It's our front ...
SCOTT PETERS You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for o...
DENNIS HASTERT It isn't safe to go to the parks. Toxic chemicals ruin the air and water. There is vandalism, ev...
MICHAEL FROME I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The format of playing just one game a day makes this trip so much more attractive to our players' fa...
BRIAN WHITAKER My goals in this position are to provide access to all residents to our parks and the center, find o...
ED GRUENWALD We're promised replacement parks, which are really park features. These will be five years down the ...
JOYCE HOGI There is no excuse for keeping wild animals in amusement parks or circuses. Until our governments ta...
PETER SINGER Our process is we want to develop parks for the people and by the people.
CONNIE EDMONSTON We take too much of our heritage for granted. Harriman State Park is not Mt. Vernon. Nor is it Yosem...
MARY E. REED The pressure to increase these kinds of uses in national parks is constantly increasing. Our park la...
DON BARGER It's all part of smart growth, ... It's accessible to transportation, shopping, schools, parks. .�...
ANNE WILSON Dare to lust - Lust is healthy, lust is good, and is a part of our personality we all should embrace...
QUENTIN BRAUN There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fun...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The parks are wide open and we're encouraging the public to come to the parks. Obviously, we're at a...
PHILIP BECK What Shapiro is doing is, first of all, getting back to the basics, which is very important. He's po...
DENNIS SPEIGEL I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
G. K. CHESTERTON I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
G.K CHESTERTON We have a certain group of people in this country that seem to want to lock up our national treasure...
DON SHERWOOD In the wake of the tax bonanzas for new commercial projects, roadside strips boomed. Private develop...
DOLORES HAYDEN Mayor Henderson has been real supportive of the park board and the parks department since he became ...
CLYDE FRESHOUR In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes th...
RALPH REGULA All the theme parks follow each other.
JERRY ALDRICH Despite the cold weather, more than 2,000 concerned New Yorkers are taking part in HOPE 2006 and wil...
ANGELA ALLEN We are looking for quality tourism, not quantity, for a tourist that comes, respects our national pa...
JOSE MARIA This is about the legacy of Seattle and protecting the beauty of its parks. Once you have ruined you...
DIANE DUTHWEILER Parks are really key to the health of our community. They add value to our community.
JULIA BOTT determine, once and for all, whether Cindy Sheehan is Rosa Parks or Lyndon Larouche.
PAULA ZAHN With the parks, I don't think we should be the test case for that.
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LAURA HAIGHT The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desi...
KAY HAGAN If our national parks are going to be reduced to performing only the bare minimum of ?core operation...
JEFF RUCH Our goal is that we will be able to have public disclosure of all the data and ultimately, we hope t...
AMY BROCKELMAN I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which hav...
DARELL HAMMOND It's up to us as a community with resources to develop the affordable housing inventory to help them...
MARGOT SCHRIRE Our service department parks vehicles behind our building and at times we are just packed.
CARI YTURRI I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don'...
JACK HANDEY We needed our parks mowed. We needed our garbage picked up.
JOSHUA FREEMAN People still come to me for large portraits of children and families. And I still enjoy taking photo...
BARBARA COLLINS I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the ...
BRUCE BABBITT But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our busines...
LAURA MILLER Then they could go right across the street here to Faulkner Park or one of the state parks.
AARON HUNGERFORD The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck...
JOHN MUIR The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bli...
ROBERT SMITHSON In the interest of public safety, with the families that use the park and children and so forth, we ...
JENNIFER HOBBIC (All three parks) are currently operating under an interim plan (for snowmobile use) as we prepare a...
AL NASH We are fortunate to have very large oaks at some of our parks.
JOAN BYRNE Rosa Parks served as an inspiration to generations of African-Americans and all people of good will....
BRUCE GORDON We feel it is important to be able to show comparable and affordable mobile-home parks in the area.
ANTHONY PINZONE The question is can you enjoy the parks without leaving them unimpaired?
CURT BUCHHOLTZ We feel that it should be a public park and that people should be able to eat and sit and talk and c...
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JEFF K. HUMPHREY The park is for residents and families to relax and enjoy a very peaceful environment.
KRIS MCBRIDE We were told we would never be able to raise that much money, but we were determined to have a safe,...
BRADLEE DODDS They felt it was a good ordinance to pass to keep the children in the community safe, that are eithe...
BRENT BROWN Parks represent an efficient, cost-effective way to improve public health.
CHUCK NORRIS Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, wh...
HENRY MAYHEW We want all of our families and all of the children to feel that they're welcome and included there,...
HELEN COHEN Our community was great. They're here for me. My family's out safe, healthy, it's all good.
BILL LACOMBE The ache for "home" lives inside all of us, to be able to return to our safe place and not have to b...
JOSé N. HARRIS The good part about these areas that we were taking over, was that all of them had parks where a lot...
DREXEL DEAL School reform efforts have too often overlooked a powerful constituency for school change - the stud...
WENDY PURIEFOY Our parks are the No. 1 tourist destinations for every continent where we have a presence,
BOB IGER Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landsc...
ROBERT SMITHSON Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good job...
DONALD TRUMP All of the investors (families included) were able to get their capital back, plus the agreed 25 per...
GITESH PANDYA I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the ca...
GREG RUCKA There are 45 parks in Wyandotte County, ranging from 1,500 acres to the tiny St. John's Park on Thir...
BOB GUNJA Remember parks are designed to be aesthetically pleasing. You have to be careful about how it would ...
GREGORY JONES Ninety-nine percent of our clients are businesses. And we also do a lot of work in parks.
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JOHN CONYERS We want to have a safe and healthy environment for our children to grow up in. This is a wonderful w...
CHARLENE MCGRIFF This is the first of a handful of parks that will be brought up for sale. Every time they sell a par...
DENNIS SPEIGEL Our desire for this weekend is to rattle the parks department's cage and make them aware there are n...
DIANE DUTHWEILER There are parks for little children. Why can't teenagers and young adults have a place to go spray-p...
DONALD MCCONNELL We left there with the greatest love for Los Angeles. Los Angeles did not do this to us. The park ra...
TIM WILLIAMS They have agreed to keep their eyes open and report any violence or mischief taking place in the par...
ERMINE ROWE You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasi...
JANE JACOBS The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I k...
PATRICIA HEWITT All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they ...
JOHN CALVIN All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they ...
JOHN CALVIN All our Russian friends told us we would never be able to help. But through determination and a stro...
CHRISTINA GREENBERG We are not going to sit down idly by and watch our once beautiful parks go down the drain.
BETH MCDONALD We were thus able to compare parks in isolated areas, under practically no pressure, with Indian lan...
DANIEL NEPSTAD The 38th Annual Scenic Drive welcomes the world to enjoy its villages, parks, apple orchards, bridge...
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LES DAWSON In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no rea...
LES CLAYPOOL It's important to me that money not be important to me.
LES BROWN I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well eq...
LES BROWN You have the courage and power to live your dreams.
LES BROWN Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just mean...
LES BROWN You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your l...
LES BROWN Take action in order to move toward your goals.
LES BROWN Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimat...
LES BROWN Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.
LES BROWN