Citizens Quotes

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment.

Everybody knows that if you're born in America, you are a citizen. No, you're not.

If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.

I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's like every other citizen, fed up with it.

Has the pope questioned the Christianity of the Castro brothers, of any other private citizen?

The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen.

Even the Supreme Court, back when it used to makes sense, the Supreme Court has never ruled that a baby born to illegal aliens in the US is automatically a citizen.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

I'm an average citizen and always have been.

Gov. Romney has claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at Bain and people are wanting to know, is there proof of that claim? And was it U.S. jobs created for United States citizens?

... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.

Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.

The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.

[It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force.

The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

I understand the frustration of the community, i want citizens to know exactly how it happened, and if necessary, I will ensure that we hold the right people accountable.

Citizens United said that transparency would be the disinfectant, but (c)(4)'s are warm, wet, moist incubators. There is no disinfectant.

America was built on her citizens.

If our children are healthy, they'll develop into their full potential and become wonderful tax-paying citizens sometime.

You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating.

It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.

All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.

Everyone should strive to be a world citizen. Boundaries were created by man, not the Creator. There is no such thing as THEM vs. US. There is only WE.

Politics is mainly about interests. As Muslim citizens, we understand these interests but we should put principles and dignity beyond everything.

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.

You know what the [Barack] Obama administration keeps getting wrong is whenever anything bad happens they focus on law-abiding citizens instead of focusing on the bad guys.

The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.

[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.

I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

The reality is that baby boomers are turning senior citizens and not only is it inhumane, but the system will go broke. There needs to be wholesale change.

Our political process appears to be a toxic dance of mutually assured destruction that takes all the citizens down with you, and that can't be right. So I've prepared a little experiment.

True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.

By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

Faffing of course does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.