Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Allen

It's what the citizens give from their hearts. They just keep donating here at HEB and we have 12 to 15 pallets right now, and they're still coming in,

Rick Larsen

It's wholly inappropriate for untrained citizens to be out there on the border. It's putting them in a dangerous position,

Tom Barrett

It's time that for the legislature to get serious about protecting citizens from those criminals who victimize our neighborhoods and families with illegal guns.

Ariel Sharon

I view the issue of unity as the most important one, and after that returning security to the citizens of Israel,

I want the message to be to our citizens that the City of Galveston is on top of this and very prepared to respond to this event.

They deserve the right to stay here and become a citizen like I am.

Boris Yeltsin

They have tried to go back to the Middle Ages, ... Our duty is to protect Russian citizens and restore law and order in this territory.

It's a pretty big network. Without volunteer citizen science, there's be no way we could have a project of this scope and reach within the region.

It's going to take everyone who's still left living here to get involved. We need all the citizens to take pride in our city, to take ownership of our city.

It's been a privilege, to say the least, to serve the citizens of Brookline for the past 6 1/2 years,

It's ridiculous. Part of being a citizen is paying taxes.

Otto Schily

It's repulsive to claim that terror and extremism will be imported to Germany if we modernize our citizenship laws,

John McGinnis

It's surely very good that citizens understand the Constitution and it's in some sense critical that citizens watch over Congress and the courts to make sure they're good stewards of the Constitution,

John Culberson

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

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.

Lewis Black

I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.

Pierre Trudeau

Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Paul Newman

No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.

Mitch Daniels

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

Mirra Alfassa

There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of good will, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme truth.

Potter Stewart

May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am a Roman citizen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

Noam Chomsky

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

For the first time, normal citizens focused on this issue, weighed the evidence and found their public trust was violated.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The relationship between citizens and government is increasingly mediated through the Internet.

There was a lot of outcry from the citizens over vineyard impacts.

a strong signal from the federal judiciary that Georgia has gone too far in impeding the right of citizens to vote.

Thomas Jefferson

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.

The more profit we make, the more stores we can open, the more donations we can make to our community, the more responsible citizens we can be for the environment. It's all interactive. It's all connected together. There's no separation.

Ralph Nader

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

Socrates

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.