Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Prager

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic

Dennis Prager

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

Edmund Burke

We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

Paul Prudhomme

We have a responsibility as citizens to do what we can for each other,

We have instructors come in and actually teach the citizens about what the police department does on a regular basis.

The face of hunger doesn't have a particular color, and it doesn't come from a particular neighborhood. They are your neighbors, they are working Americans, they are senior citizens who have worked their entire lives, and they are children.

Eduardo Saverin

I thought of myself as a global citizen.

Aristotle

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

Eliot Engel

These are three American citizens and we really demand answers for American citizens.

Elinor Ostrom

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

Efraim Zuroff

The only hope we have here is that his Austrian citizenship gets cancelled.

The primary goal of our lacrosse program is to prepare them to compete in the sport, and to teach the players individual discipline, values and how to become a better citizen in our society. The coaches of our team will be outstanding role models for the players, school and community.

Cub Scouts is about patriotism and citizenship, ... This is a great example of that.

And the United States, for its part, is going to do everything it can to ensure that the rights of Iraqi citizens are respected.

And we have promised to give the city another $2.5 million, which it counts on to pay for fire protection and police and other services our citizens have which are not revenue producing.

Even as human rights norms have steadily evolved over the past half-century, the field of citizenship has remained one of the last bastions of untrammeled state sovereignty. As a result, citizenship creates a giant loophole in the international human rights framework.

Yolanda King

During the movement, they called them citizenship education programs. People were actually taught the skills of nonviolence.

Muhammadu Buhari

Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.

Tom Ridge

Be wary and be mindful, ... Let's make sure that every individual citizen who sees something suspicious reports it,

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

Jose Barroso

Turkey must win the hearts and minds of European citizens. They are the ones who at the end of the day will decide about Turkey's membership.

We were in no position to look at any conference, ... We had to try to be a good citizen within Conference USA. That was a very good fit for us at that point.

We had a radical clash over policy programs, a pact now would be incomprehensible for the citizens. There can be no coup de theatre, no rabbit pulled out of a hat.

We wanted people to take away a feeling of responsibility. Hopefully, when you visit this museum, you'll not only learn about issues and the importance of these freedoms, but you'll be a better informed citizen to make your own decision. ... Then as an informed citizen, take that back out on the street, take that back into your life and be a more involved citizen in the community and the country.

To shut down live music at 12 is unfair and unreasonable. It is a matter of improving community relations and empowering citizens to improve the environment in which they live.

George Pataki

We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents.

James Lankford

Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treated with respect. Every person is also a citizen of some country. In their country, they have rights and responsibilities; in every other country, they are a guest.

Every citizen in the state of Hawaii should be worried they're losing top quality teachers to elsewhere in the nation because of better pay.

Tim O'Brien

Cooper Lighting has a history of community goodwill and generous corporate citizenship. We were pleased to participate in this project for such a well- deserved family.

Paul Wolfowitz

Corruption is often at the very root of why governments don't work. It weakens the systems and distorts the markets. In the end, governments and citizens will pay a price, in lower incomes, lower investment and more volatile economic swings. But when governments do work - when they tackle corruption and improve their rule of law - they can raise their national incomes by as much as four times.

Corporate citizen notwithstanding, ... a heck of a lot of Americans are dying prematurely due to this product.

Scott Walker

It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something close to what our neighbors and our fellow citizens do in the private sector.