Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zubin Mehta

Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

Tim Pawlenty

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

John C. Calhoun

There is no direct and immediate connection between the individual citizens of a state and the general government. The relation between them is through the state. The Union is a union of states as communities and not a union of individuals.

Nick Clegg

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.

Greg Thompson

The Americans will say they have the right to innocent passage, but it's complicated by the fact that this is extremely dangerous cargo and there is extreme risk to our citizens and to the environment,

Jane Hoffa

The application goes into the State, then they're on the waiting list to take the test. It's a slow process, and it should not be. A lot of people would have become citizens much faster if the process moved along.

Carol Bruce

We need to have experienced positive leadership in offices. We've done a lot for the town and we're proud of that and I think the citizens will see that and come out to support us.

Richard Boucher

We have worked closely with Mexican authorities to take the appropriate steps to ensure the safety and the security of U.S. citizens in Mexico,

Alberta Stima

We have to worry about the weather. Most of our volunteers are senior citizens and they walk very gingerly.

Sammy Day

That was a tough loss. But they battled back and I was proud of them.

Liz Darger

We could end the season right now and I'd be happy. I'm proud of this whole team.

Tommy Swanson

We had our chances. It was still a solid year for us, one we can look back on and be proud of.

Tom Renney

We were sloppy, but we didn't give up. I'm proud of that.

Shaun Alexander

We have a lot of things to be proud of. We took Seattle to a place it's never been before.

Chad Alan

We're very proud of where we come from.

Rick Hendrick

We're really proud of the team and the effort.

William Shakespeare

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania

Dick Cheney

You'll be proud of Harriet's record, Rush, ... Trust me.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Bertrand Russell

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

Muhammad Yunus

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Diane Watson

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Dianne Feinstein

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

Dianne Feinstein

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.