Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Blanco

While the eye of the storm is now projected to go a little more westerly and into the Texas area, it is strengthening, ... That still could give us some impact on the eastern side of the storm. We are watching it and we want our citizens to watch it very carefully.

Robert Greene

While the citizens have a vested interest in the city following up on this, the citizens have other, greater interests.

Phil Klay

Marines and soldiers don't issue themselves orders; they don't send themselves overseas. United States citizens elect the leaders who send us overseas.

Mardi Gras will set us back on the path to economic revitalization. Millions of tax dollars will flow back and help pave the way to providing the opportunity for every one of our citizens to come home from all over the United States.

Bruce Campbell

I think citizens groups ... are able to do a lot more,

We read the rules and they clearly require the BLM to prepare a full environmental impact statement and include the public in these processes. The BLM is simply trying to intimidate the public and prevent citizens from enforcing the law and protecting their public forest.

Bill Clinton

We must work toward the day when citizen service is the common expectation and common experience of every American.

I think he's rendered good and valuable service to the citizens of Kootenai County,

I thought it was my obligation as a citizen to come forward. This is the right thing to do.

Who are Commissioners looking out for, its citizens or the developers?

Tom Ridge

While your government is doing everything it can to prevent an attack, citizens also should know what to do, ... Because in the end, being prepared, knowing what to do, can and will save lives.

We can tell the citizens we will fight for their rights and we can say that this is going to be the first government that will not be dealing with itself but with the interests of the citizens,

We're always looking for interaction between the university and the community. That's part of the promise we have with the citizens of Kansas.

Christine Pelosi

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation

Giuseppe Mazzini

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

Gifford Pinchot

It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat,

Hugh Shelton

It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

Hugh Shelton

But the other thing is that I feel very confident in the individual pilots. They are tremendous individuals. They are individuals that have sworn to protect and defend our very citizens. That's why we serve.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Jesse Ventura

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

Jesse Ventura

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

David Harsanyi

Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.

Gov. Fletcher has failed to uphold his duty to protect Kentucky citizens and enforce the Kentucky constitution.

Noam Chomsky

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

For the first time, normal citizens focused on this issue, weighed the evidence and found their public trust was violated.

If he comes back, he's a private citizen traveling. It's nothing that this office is involved in.

If everyone would be good citizens and move over when the signs tell you to, traffic would move more quickly. It's the science of complexity. In large group dynamics special things happen because each individual is trying to maximize their own benefit.

If folks don't think government and their fellow citizens are up to the task, they may not feel that they are, either. What's civic morale going to be like, long term? I don't think we can say yet. We haven't ever seen anything like this.

Brad Little

I can't tell you how many hearings we've had where first off people can't hear, even if they get in there, because they're just not designed that well, and second there's just not that much room, ... After the staff and the press gets in there, there might be room for 15 citizens.

I don't think the citizens of Columbia will vote for a strong mayor form of government. I think they're satisfied with the council and manager form that we have now.

Mordechai Vanunu

I am asking the state of Israel to revoke my citizenship. This wish for revocation of citizenship is neither new nor recent. Now, however, it is supported by the new Revocation of Citizenship Law.

Socrates

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.