Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Baldacci

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.

We were not even citizens of Santa Clara.

We've worked very hard to make sure city government is prepared for a natural disaster. What we need to happen, as well, is for the citizens to be well prepared.

Conrad Black

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

We are citizens we are taxpayers. Do something.

Steve Davis

We can talk in general numbers, but to have a number citizens can count on, we?d need a formal rate study.

We have been completely overwhelmed by the generosity of the citizens of Jacksonville.

We will do everything we can to stop this nonsense of dual citizenship.

We wouldn't recommend that any citizen shoot out somebody's tires.

Vandana Shiva

Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

There has to be a path to citizenship for the people who are here now. They're not taking jobs away from Americans; these are jobs Americans don't want.

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.

Montel Williams

I have never had a problem with national service. I am not sure the draft is the way to go about it, but I am positive that you live in a society and you take from this society, which every citizen here does. You owe something back to this country, and that should be paid back in some form of national service.

We're continuing to do the same things we did two or three years ago, ... It's an excuse to take more money out of the citizens' pockets.

Sharron Angle

What we need is to make our senior citizens feel secure once more with their own Social Security and Medicare. But going forward, we need to personalize that program in a way that the government can't go in and raid it any more.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.

We want respect. We don't feel equal citizens of the Czech Republic. We don't feel free. We fear for our children.

We want our citizens of Houston and our citizens from New Orleans to know that we've got to come together as one and we do that by communicating, by sharing.

J. J. Johnson

We were trying so hard not to do something that would upset this man and get one of our citizens killed. ... Everything had to be read from a script.

Aristotle

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

David Warner

Most of the stuff they have is the same stuff they've always had, but now there are people saying, 'You know, I'm not going to limit myself to what the institution is giving me.' It's a matter of citizens saving themselves.

Most people think we're crazy, ... But it's about learning different cultures and languages. Experiencing different food, meeting different people. These were hard decisions, to sell our stuff, to just leave. We're leaving family, too. But this endeavor allows us to be citizens of the world.

The face of hunger doesn't have a particular color, and it doesn't come from a particular neighborhood. They are your neighbors, they are working Americans, they are senior citizens who have worked their entire lives, and they are children.

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.

I thought it was my obligation as a citizen to come forward. This is the right thing to do.