Citizens Quotes

As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.

We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.

I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.

Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

The free circulation of citizens, which is sacrosanct, cannot become the free circulation of criminals.

The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another.

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

We are citizens of eternity.

Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.

I'm the world heavyweight champion. I consider myself a citizen of the whole world.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave.

Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.

This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like interfacing with them.

Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us.

I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

I think that the, Ted Cruz is not even a natural-born citizen, argument will resonate for at least the next few weeks.

The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

Muslim citizens should never be classified according to their creed, origin, ancestry or culture. After all, I don't define my political or social position by reference to the Christian faith.

I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.

When immigrants go into the worse neighborhood and they fix it up, they should become citizens.

The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all.

The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens -- usually cash -- and keep it for itself.

I am an Israeli-born American citizen.

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.

The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens.

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of.

I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.

Our responsibility as citizens is to keep doing our part.

Senator Kennedy inspired so many with his decades of service, so I can't think of a more fitting tribute then working to educate and motivate future generations of citizens and public servants alike.

I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.