Citizens Quotes

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

It seems that immigrants often have a special understanding of the incredible opportunities that this nation affords its citizens.

As a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal - in all of those areas, I am looking forward to the end of the Bush administration with every fiber of my being.

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.

I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.

I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

The challenges presented by our budget crisis are some of the most difficult we have ever faced. We are - very simply put -adjusting to reality. These times, and our citizens, demand change.

Kathy Shelton was a private citizen whose life was destroyed.

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

My future is in Perth, hopefully as a citizen and I want to be an asset to the country as much as I want to be a part of the community and be a citizen.

Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve.

The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

It is actually against the law for a citizen to give money to a terrorist.

We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.

The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

I am a Roman citizen.

As an optimist, I choose to be glass-half-full about [Donald Trump] while still very cautiously appreciating and understanding the fear that a lot of our fellow citizens have.

Citizens should be looked to for what they can give of their own nobility, virtue, creative thinking, passion, and natural talent for community building and relating to others.

The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the same protections as it does our citizens.

The Iranian regime calls for the annihilation of Israel, it oppresses its own citizens, it's part of the murder going on in Syria and it's building an atomic bomb.

[Dwight Eisenhower was ] a citizen of the world.

Big government makes small citizens.

For us, my wife and I and all of my partners believe that corporations have to be corporate citizens, and individuals who benefit from them, or who have built them, need to give back.

We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.

Obamas IRS is not the IRS Ive ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

We have to stop the killing. We need to let the refugees - we need to let Syrian citizens go home.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

Donald Trump is going to remain completely focused on American citizens and people who are here legally, and how we get this country working for people who play by the rules.

The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

[Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

I have sacrificed my freedom and risked my life in order to expose the danger of nuclear weapons which threatens this whole region. I acted on behalf of all citizens and all of humanity.

I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.

I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

When approached right, citizens never fail to shoulder their responsibilities.