Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezekiel Emanuel

Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

Erwin McManus

Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.

James A. Garfield

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

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.

George Takei

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

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.

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.

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.

Dan Gillmor

Fewer citizens participated, they were less interested in collaboration with one another, and the response to our initiatives was underwhelming.

You look at how energy is being consumed and used and you also look at branching out into the community to get the individuals and citizens to conserve energy.

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.

Richard Lamm

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

We should be able to supply our citizens with energy resources.

Russell Pearce

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.

We are very pleased we are able to move forward and meet today's needs for families in our community. We, as a council, have a moral obligation to the citizens of Leominster.

Dan Stevens

Is it too early? I don't think so. The citizens of the United States have forgotten what happened. It's definitely a moment I'll never forget.

John Sununu

It would have been great to have a place where citizens could go to discuss the issues properly and get the information out there.

Mike Easley

I urge citizens to take necessary precautions to keep their families safe. This storm is moving slowly which means that we will feel its effects for a longer time.

Don Thompson

The widespread financial difficulties being experienced by our citizens are a good indicator that the fair would not and should not be a top priority as individuals rebuild their lives,

They all recognize the need to do more. Some communities are being driven by citizens saying they want more. It gets people more involved in government.

The WTO ruling is not a victory for the US administration and the biotech giants. Countries around the world should continue to enforce tough legislation protecting their citizens and the environment from the risks of genetically modified crops.