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My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here.


Ernie Fletcher


#commonwealth #economic #economic opportunity #enough #fortunate

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.


Dick Thornburgh


#capacity #commonwealth #constitution #created #exercise

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy. In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less and less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, and shares. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced or placeless citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers... Thus, although we are not slaves in name, and cannot be carried to market and sold as somebody else's legal chattels, we are free only within narrow limits. For all our talk about liberation and personal autonomy, there are few choices that we are free to make. What would be the point, for example, if a majority of our people decided to be self-employed? The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.


Wendell Berry


#community #democracy #economy #freedom #government

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.


Bob McDonnell


#chief executive #commonwealth #executive #governor #represents

The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise.


Ben Pimlott


#bad press #commonwealth #consistently #demise #empire

A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy. (pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy")


Wendell Berry


#community #identity #politics #art

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.


Jay Weatherill


#appropriate #commonwealth #could #export #framework

Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.


Michael East


#gold #just #totally #unbelievable #winning

One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.


David Miliband


#commonwealth #crown #economics #especially #essential

Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.


Edward G. Rendell


#continues #creating #highest #highest priority #jobs






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