Citizens Quotes

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is vital that government leaders and financial leaders take heed and broaden their horizons, working to ensure that all citizens have dignified work, education, and healthcare.

I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people.

The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

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.

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

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.

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

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

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.

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

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

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

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

The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.

Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

We need more citizens that are committed and courageous.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

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

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

The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

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

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

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

It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.

You have made a very good point: both the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I enjoy a fairly high level of trust among the citizens of our countries.

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

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.

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.