Citizens Quotes

[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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.

I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens.

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens

I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in military matters and are not personally impacted.

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.