Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierce Brosnan

I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.

Carlos Menem

I hope the American citizens will come to recognize that they are not the only ones who need you still here and (need) your leadership. Your leadership is needed, Mr. President, all over the world,

I interpret that the citizens want to go out on their own, they don't want to remain in shelters, people are looking for opportunities.

Tim Moore

It's not going to be shifted onto the everyday citizen.

It's not FEMA that's come to the rescue; it's private citizens from around the country who are helping us out.

Each of these leading-brand companies is known for being good corporate citizens for giving back to their communities and being mindful of today's youth. We are thrilled that they have stepped forward in this effort.

Cesare Beccaria

No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt?

Maajid Nawaz

Not all Muslims wish to express themselves in public through a communal religious identity. Identities are multiple, and some may wish to speak instead just as citizens in their professional capacity, through their political party, or their neighborhood body.

Nothing is more equitable than having the citizens make decisions that are now made by these three or four supervisors who have received huge sums of money.

There's 27 U.S. citizens missing as we speak.

This limit would ensure that each citizen would know they had as much financial clout as any other citizen.

This keeps a good corporate citizen within the city.

They're senior citizens and we let them have the day off.

They're being good citizens without the right to citizenship.

If we want to have the support of European citizens we have to engage with them, but we also need leadership and that's something we're lacking,

Thomas Adams

If you do this, we all of us shall be rewarded by the betterment of our towns, the beautification of our streets, the improvement of our suburbs; we shall have made one step forward to still further elevating, improving, and dignifying the life of our citizens.

If you create a system that makes the small donors the linchpin of the system in terms of how members of Congress directly raise the funds for their campaigns, then it gives everyday citizens much more of a role - a leveraging role - in the funding of those campaigns.

in spite of the presence of that senior citizen on board.

In the midst of this national crisis, to have the city of New York, which has known such tragedy itself, to reach out to the citizens of New Orleans is a wonderful thing, and to do it in such a way that celebrates the rich traditions of New Orleans music shows an understanding and compassion that is truly heartwarming.

I really didn't know what to expect, but I knew the people were not happy with the way things were going. The people sent this same message in May, and I think they just spoke again. It's the citizens we work for, not the city manager or the City Council.

Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

Jesse Ventura

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

Jesse Ventura

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

Kimberly Elise

We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.

Molly Ivins

What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.

Coming after Peter Harvey and at a time citizens are so skeptical of government, to appoint a political operative is dreadful.

David Harsanyi

Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.

Gov. Fletcher has failed to uphold his duty to protect Kentucky citizens and enforce the Kentucky constitution.

If he comes back, he's a private citizen traveling. It's nothing that this office is involved in.

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.