Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred W. Friendly

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

Hilaire Belloc

But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.

Henry L. Stimson

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

Society can not progress unless each citizen make his contribution and performs his duties.

Eduardo Saverin

I thought of myself as a global citizen.

Destroying this file would not only make crime-solving in Pennsylvania more difficult, but would also jeopardize the lives and safety of citizens and police officers.

Chris Turner

A person who does that to decent, civilized american citizens should be punished more severely.

Any decent Iraqi would not do that, and every good citizen rejects that, too,

Any citizen may report violations of the notary law. We have not received a complaint regarding this incident.

Chuck Hagel

any straight-thinking American, any straight-thinking citizen of the world.

Alan Greenspan

As China's citizens experience economic gains, so will the American firms that trade in their expanding markets,

As citizens of the state we should settle for nothing less than protections of an individual's liberty and equality.

As citizen(s) of the country and as a human being(s), we want to help out.

As a whole, I think he did exactly what the citizens of the parish expected: to take control and take a leadership position in getting us through the disaster,

Tim Johnson

Our American democracy is in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, and there can be little doubt as to why so many U.S. citizens have become increasingly cynical about the integrity of the entire process,

People's emotions are very frayed, ... And returning citizens will often be more irritable dealing with their own issues. People coming back will be under more pressure more stress.

Normal citizens opened their homes and offered pilgrims restrooms, cookies and drinks. Their hospitality taught me to try to be more giving in my daily life.

After the election November 7, from the point of view of the citizens, ... all votes were equal, but some votes were more equal than others.

Mo Ibrahim

Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow.

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.

Bob Brown

The results speak for themselves. The citizens of the state of Utah understand that private clubs and taverns are different from hospitals and office buildings.

Russia has been entirely proportionate in its military response to Georgia's attack on Russian citizens and peacekeepers.

Tom Kennedy

Right now we're just seeking input from the property owners. We'll gather the feedback from the citizens we contacted and see where it goes from there. As it now stands, we have no definite time line and no definite action. We're just considering options.

Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to protect shareholders of corporations. The citizenry and taxpayers of Denver are the ?shareholders? of our city government, (and) they deserve the same kind of protection.

Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted to protect shareholders of corporations, ... The citizenry and taxpayers of Denver are the ?shareholders? of our city government, (and) they deserve the same kind of protection.

Public officials have a responsibility to count and recognize the votes of all Floridians who voted in this presidential election, ... Factors such as administrative inconvenience, expediency or the limitations of vote-reading machines pale in comparison to protecting the voting rights of our citizens.

James Martin

put the safety of the citizens in jeopardy.

Rasputin being Karl Rove, who thinks these 10 million illegals will become citizens and vote Republican.

Bob Dole

private citizens say all kinds of things all the time. Next question.

Donald Rumsfeld

private citizens say all kinds of things all the time.

Norman Cousins

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time