Citizens Quotes

The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

No men are less addicted to reverie than the citizens of a democracy.

It is rather shocking to note that opposition leaders, who are representatives of the wananchi (citizens), are themselves rejecting the participation of the wananchi in this major public issue.

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury. They're signing a contract that they are 18 years of age or older and they're citizens of the United States.

And terrorists who seek to harm our citizens will feel the long arm of American justice.

I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top priority.

As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism.

Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed for it even when the politics was hard.

We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.

The artist as citizen is here to stay.

On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

Citizen's arrest," he said. "Well, that, and Patch told me to.

In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens.

The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible.

Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.

I'm very proud to be the prime minister of all of Israel's citizens, Arabs and Jews alike.

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

In a world that might say one vote doesn't matter..., it does matter because each person is of infinite worth and value to God... Your vote is a declaration of importance as a person and a citizen.

Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.

Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I'm glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

The best assurance the role of minorities can be given is that they will not be viewed as minorities but as citizens.

The citizen takes his city for granted far too often. He forgets to marvel.

Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.

It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.

In fact rules are more important in our underworld than they are to the regular citizen who works within them.

I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.

The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

I want my kids to grow up to be a useful citizen.

If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

We have a man [Donald Trump] who understands the frustrations and the aspirations of our fellow citizens.