Top 215 Regional Quotes

The basis for securing preferential future trade terms with India begins in that recognition of essential equality. Indeed it begins in recognising that India is now an emerging global superpower whose primary interests are regional in South East Asia and who needs a deal with the U.K. less than we need one with her.
Barry Gardiner
A strong believer in the importance of cooperation in the hemisphere, President Trump has made engagement with regional leaders a top priority.
Robert C. O’Brien
People in the Midwest, there’s a lot of regional pride and a lot more, like, fake positivity – ‘That’s great – you’re awesome!’
Lou Barlow
New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.
Frances Beinecke
But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation’s future – climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.
Kevin Rudd
Ford had a number of different strategies over the years that they thought obviously made sense at the time, just like all the different brands, and also the regional operations.
Alan Mulally
The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.
Hillary Clinton
An environment of peace and security is essential for regional cooperation to progress and achieve economic development and prosperity of our people.
Sushma Swaraj
Our unique selling point as a country is global, not regional. Our industries have a pitch to the world, rather than simply trade with Europe.
Crispin Blunt
I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Liberalized trade – in broadly multilateral, regional, or bilateral agreements – is a key ingredient in the recipe for prosperity… An absolute prerequisite for long-term economic growth is full participation in the global economy and trading system.
Kevin Hassett
West Indian Test cricketers are among the top world cricketers in terms of pay and remuneration. They are not underpaid. They are easily in the elite of Caribbean skilled workers, earning millions of dollars after, let’s say, a five-year period of regional representation.
Hilary Beckles
One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.
Robert Zoellick
Regional interest rate differentials persisted until around the time of World War I and helped shape the attitudes of Americans living in western areas toward the nation’s financial system.
Jerome Powell
We need to cut the pensions and annuities of parliamentarians, regional councilors, and employees of constitutional bodies.
Giuseppe Conte
No regional cinema can compete with national cinema.

No regional cinema can compete with national cinema.
Atul Kulkarni
We must focus much more on developing countries’ own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.
Anna Lindh
I don’t like the idea of stepping-stones in art forms: that you do your time at a regional theatre, and then you work in London and go to the West End, and then you do films. I’ve never felt like following that trajectory.
John Tiffany
Considering our highly skilled workforce, our geographic resources, and the robust economic development partnerships on the state, regional and local levels, companies from all across the globe continue to look to Louisiana as a smart and strategic destination for their next business investment.
John Bel Edwards
Issues like security threats, declining traffic, high insurance premiums, rising fuel costs, among others, call for individual strengths to be aligned towards regional stability.
Lucio Tan
All this while when I was not seen in Hindi films, I did a lot of regional cinema. I was a part of various Gujarati, Punjabi and Bhojpuri films.
Raza Murad
We don’t think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.
Warren Stephens
To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens and local slaughter facilities.
Tom Vilsack
Not only does the UK have the highest levels of regional inequality among the major economies, the imbalance is widening, not narrowing.
David Olusoga
We’ve given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.
John Prescott
Australia – not western in geography, of course, but in every other respect for sure (it certainly doesn’t want to be regarded as Asian, God forbid) – loves nothing more than to throw its weight around in South-East Asia by playing peacekeeper, carrying out its role as the United States’ regional policeman.
Martin Jacques
Disruption to the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth. Any attempt by Iran to close the Straits would be illegal and unsuccessful.
Philip Hammond
Drag is very regional.
Jinkx Monsoon
Building sustainable cities – and a sustainable future – will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders – including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
Ban Ki-moon
There is certainly an economic disparity between Bollywood and the regional film industry.
Priyanshu Chatterjee
I would love to do regional cinema, provided the role is exciting enough and artistically challenging.
Nushrat Bharucha
Chechens need to be able to develop their own viable political society and regional economy whether they remain part of Russia or not.
Fiona Hill
Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.
Ellen Tauscher
The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
Jack Keane
Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the official Chinese media call ‘hot online topics:’ stories about how people in a particular village or town used Weibo to expose malfeasance by local or regional authorities.
Rebecca MacKinnon
When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
Annie Parisse
Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran.
Stephen Kinzer
Both Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama pursued policies of regime change after 9/11 – with Bush removing al-Qaida’s safe haven in Afghanistan and the sadistic anti-American dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq – but Obama took it a step further and disregarded regional stability as a guiding factor for U.S. policy.
Pete Hoekstra
The United States must ensure that Iran does not attain nuclear weapons, as this poses a direct threat to our interests, including Israel, and would in all likelihood provoke a regional arms race.
Joe Sestak
An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis.
Martin Jacques
With the decline of America’s global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The creation of regional mayors has done little to reduce the sense that all power is concentrated in Westminster, and all investment in London.
Caroline Lucas
The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.
Sherrod Brown
Australians do love a good food festival. From regional gems like The Taste of Tasmania to Margaret River Gourmet Escape, diehard eaters have a litany of opportunities to revel in Australia’s great produce and chow down on food made by some of the brightest culinary talent from here and abroad.
Melissa Leong
I really loved traveling the U.S. and seeing regional differences within the same country and how the same ingredients are used in very different ways. I love how the ‘old guard’ of cuisine are still pioneering so much of the direction of food today.
Johnny Iuzzini
My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
Turkey is a model of economic and social development, e

Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation.
Victor Ponta
We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.
Li Peng
See in old days, there were only two parties nationally, Congress and BJP… Now there are regional leaders. Time has come to pick up regional leaders in these national parties and build political campaign around them who can challenge regional parties.
Amarinder Singh
The Brexit vote, the presidential elections in the U.S., a number of the other regional political movements – that’s not a flash in the pan.
James P. Gorman
I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.
Mithun Chakraborty
Music is very subjective. You may or may not like a song, but folk and regional language have a connectivity that binds different people together, who slowly begin to relate to it.
Jubin Nautiyal