Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hassan Rouhani

Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.

William Simmons

The expertise of a number of our Easton citizens was quite helpful,

Diogenes

Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world .

Chuck D.

The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.

Conrad Black

I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.

We have a two-fold mission: To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure just and equal treatment to all citizens alike.

We need them to do that, and they need to do that for the citizens of Jacksonville.

Linda Thompson

Those are things that citizens and people that are getting proactive in their communities are addressing. Getting the word out there is important.

Those are the kinds of issues we as citizens need to figure out together.

Jack Johnson

We are deploying resources to house our new citizens and to ease their suffering.

Edmund Stoiber

Unfortunately, we don't have such intelligent citizens everywhere as we do in Bavaria.

Robert Fulghum

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

Robert Kennedy

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

Samuel Adams

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

Ray McGovern

Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general get up and say, "Well, it doesn't say in the constitution judicial process. It just says due process." Now that's a lawyerly diversion from the truth.

Thomas Jefferson

For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to say, of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.

Richard Burr

Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

Tony Judt

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

Tony Judt

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

Steven Erikson

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

Solon

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

I am still an Indonesian citizen.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

Stephen Colbert

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

Sonia Sotomayor

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.

Tim Walberg

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

Thomas Friedman

We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

Viggo Mortensen

One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

Val Kilmer

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

Taylor Caldwell

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Shahrukh Khan

I can't say that only the citizens litter. I must say that I have also been wrong in doing this. We need to ban plastics and be a little careful with garbage.

Ralph Nader

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

Socrates

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.