Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Chirac

reflection, which I shall devote to explaining to my fellow citizens what my feelings are on this crisis and the means to remedy it.

Bob Taft

Recent, severe increases in gasoline prices in my state are, to say the least, baffling. Our citizens are demanding, if not complete answers, at least some rational justification for this dramatic price increase.

Randall Terry

Our policies are immoral. This has nothing to do with helping the citizens of China. This has to do with fattening the wallets of American big business.

Our quality of life of our citizens is impacted by the tourism economy that we have,

Jim Turner

Ordinary citizens have to look at their income as opposed to their expenses and determine where they're going to make cutbacks, ... They just decided they needed more money and raised taxes.

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Peace and prosperity prevails when citizens are law abiding.

Robert Stewart

Our only intent was the safety of the survivors and the citizens of this state.

We need to establish a plan that would evacuate citizens off the peninsula for sure.

Ludwig von Mises

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

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.

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.

We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.

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.

We read the rules and they clearly require the BLM to prepare a full environmental impact statement and include the public in these processes. The BLM is simply trying to intimidate the public and prevent citizens from enforcing the law and protecting their public forest.

Bill Clinton

We must work toward the day when citizen service is the common expectation and common experience of every American.

I would hope in any situation where a New Zealand resident or citizen is in trouble, that the government will step up and help in any way it can.

I work very hard to be a good citizen for the United States. I live in daily fear that I will be deported. What will happen to my family, my home, my business?

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.

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.