all politics is local

短语

别名

all politics are local

释义与例句

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    Ultimately, constituents and voters are concerned most about issues that affect their personal lives and home communities, and they vote accordingly.

    美国 政治

    [A]ll politics is local and Kerry North is more local than most. In the electorate, the view is that Mr Ferris got in because . . . he has been an assiduous local councillor and constituency worker, painstakingly building up a formidable Sinn Fein machine that has delivered on local issues.

    All politics is local. I believe in a grassroots approach that is founded on strong representation for constituents.

词源

Variously attributed to Associated Press Washington bureau chief Byron Price, said to have first used this term in 1932, and to Chicago writer Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936). Derivative of British English professor, Dr. Samuel Johnson's 18th Century aphorism, "All virtue is local".

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