Citizens Quotes

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

If American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you.

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.

What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of misogynistic claim that misses the point.

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.

I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship.

I remind myself of the power of thought and how it's my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel compassion.

Sunday is Senior Citizens' Day. And if you want to become a senior citizen, just call the Padre ticket office.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.

No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.