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.

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,

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,

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

Marquis de Lafayette

No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.

Rick Moranis

Until 1982, Canada Day was known as Dominion Day. I always thought that had more of a ring to it. Beyond the zippy alliteration, it reminded us citizens that our domain of orderly domesticity was graced by the dominant power of our 'Dominus.'

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.

Most of the kidnappings are of Iraqi citizens.

Most of the investors are American citizens and interest has remained strong.

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.

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.

Jennifer Granholm

It is critical to coordinate, ... I want to repeat to all those great citizens out there who want so much to give, don't just send food or blankets or toys or clothes. We don't know where it's going to. It has to be coordinated.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Citizen's arrest," he said. "Well, that, and Patch told me to.

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 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.

Bruce Campbell

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

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.