Famous Quotes & Sayings

The citizens are understandably upset. They really do have issues that need to be dealt with.

The citizens are not in favor of that.

Lewis Black

I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.

Linda Chavez

When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.

Fred W. Friendly

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

John Culberson

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State

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.

Taylor Caldwell

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

Trevor Noah

I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.

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.

Robert Fulghum

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

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.

Solon

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

Ronald Reagan

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

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.

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.

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.

James Madison

I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power]. Were it necessary to verify this experience by particular proofs, they might be multiplied without end. I might find a witness in every citizen who has shared in, or been attentive to, the course of public administrations.

James Madison

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.

James Madison

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

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.

Rick Scott

I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote.

Rick Scott

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

Ronald Reagan

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.