Famous Quotes & Sayings

We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.

John Perkins

We want to have enough units to entice senior citizens to stay. Seventy-two is not enough.

Philly is a city made up of many neighborhoods - more than a hundred, in fact - and the citizens can be very territorial.

We need to establish a plan that would evacuate citizens off the peninsula for sure.

Ludwig von Mises

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

We found a wonderful group of private citizens at a makeshift shelter.

Marsha Blackburn

Citizens United fought to defend our right to free speech - and won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court.

We have a job. We have money like everyone else. As soon as possible, we get citizenship.

We wanted to make a difference. We wanted to let the country know we weren't second-class citizens.

Waco citizens deserve to know what ... their hard-earned money was used for. The public also deserves to know what will be required of the defendant dairies as they continue to operate in the North Bosque watershed.

Voting is a fundamental right of citizens that must be preserved, and an honest election process must be returned to East Chicago,

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

In sports, I was representing my country, but in politics I represent people directly. I have always lived with a cause. In army, it was the existence of the sanctity of nation and the men I was commanding, and in sports, it was the pride of my country, while in politics, it is the rights of citizens I am fighting for.

While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.

We wanted to get the citizens another avenue, another way to contact the city about the services they need.

We wanted to find out what it is citizens are expecting of us.

We have 14 million underemployed Americans. We need to put our fellow citizens to work. Many are legal immigrants. We're protecting the American dream.

Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

David Suzuki

Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.

Elinor Ostrom

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.

David Baldacci

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.

Exxon is a good corporate citizen but it does not work for the welfare of the country.

Ralph Richardson

But I would present it as a citizens petition, not ours,

Robert Jackson

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

The government has zero right to prohibit private citizens from living out their faith and sharing it with other folks in schools.

We need to get a group of citizens together to forge ahead. We need to present something such as a vision to PAT. Before we do anything, we must have a comprehensive plan and it must be up to date.

The government's failure to provide equal protection to all of its citizens and its refusal to implement court orders have grave implications for the rule of law in Zimbabwe.

The government had an obligation to tell and inform all EU citizens of our voting rights. They didn't do this,

Aaron Schock

Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.

Billy Graham

In a world that might say one vote doesn't matter..., it does matter because each person is of infinite worth and value to God... Your vote is a declaration of importance as a person and a citizen.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Jane D. Hull

No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.

George Zimmerman

Honestly, I want to live a calm life without being in the press. I want to be like any other American citizen who gets a speeding ticket or has an argument with his spouse... and doesn't have the whole world know.