Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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,

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,

Ralph Nader

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

Ted Cruz

The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome than the current one. And then in state legislatures, for those state legislatures to vote that change.

Martha Plimpton

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

Paul Newman

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

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.

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.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation

Giuseppe Mazzini

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

George Washington

At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We are citizens of eternity.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

James A. Garfield

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

George Takei

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy... Vote!

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.

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.

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.

I don't think the citizens of Columbia will vote for a strong mayor form of government. I think they're satisfied with the council and manager form that we have now.

Mordechai Vanunu

I am asking the state of Israel to revoke my citizenship. This wish for revocation of citizenship is neither new nor recent. Now, however, it is supported by the new Revocation of Citizenship Law.

Socrates

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.