Grant Shapps Quotes

The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.

If you are running a city you must focus on day-to-day problems.

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

Smart cities are those who manage their resources efficiently. Traffic, public services and disaster response should be operated intelligently in order to minimize costs, reduce carbon emissions and increase performance.

I may not know how to tune a lyre, but I know all that I need to know to make a city great and free.

There is no escape from the cost of public needs.

Government can’t deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch.

Build a roof over a capital and you have the best of all universities.

We need to create planned communities: whole new towns with the infrastructure and amenities they need, communities where people genuinely want to live, and built where demand is high.

In too many ways, Ohio is being run for the benefit of those who have already made it, and too many of our friends and neighbors are being left behind. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cuts to police officers, firefighters, nurses, teachers, and to our local schools, while property and sales taxes are going up.

The truth is a mayor can actually do very little to alter the course of a huge city run by the free market that is home to banking - the engine room of capitalism.

I think it is wrong to balance the budget on the backs of local government.

The issues that most impact the average person are made at the local level.

The federal government gets a lot press, and that's what the media talks about, but your state and local governments, in many ways, have more impact on your life than the federal government does.

Provision of best services to the citizens is our top priority, and Punjab government has evolved a coordinated programme in this regard.

If we are ever going to fix our housing affordability crisis, we have to make significant changes to how we plan and construct, and we have to be open to solutions that make it easier and faster to build much-needed housing.

Provision of facilities to the masses is linked with the collection of taxes.

In Sydney, it's not sustainable to have 41 council entities.

Infrastructure development is a huge challenge for the people of Amethi.

It is the daydreaming of some people who live in a make-believe world who think you can make roads, hospitals, and railways without any social impact!

The failure to manage economic migration properly has put further pressure on transport and housing.

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.