Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think it's very important to try to get the law to be more flexible, so that way (undocumented immigrants) can become legal immigrants. They deserve the right to stay here and become a citizen like I am.

It has been a pleasure working for the citizens of Rock County, and I really do thank them for the support that they've given in the time that I've been here,

It has been a labor of love for me. I have not tired. I am energized when I am around the citizens of Detroit.

I think voters have sent a strong message this past election that they want someone who will go down and work on issues that are priorities for the citizens in the district. Like traffic congestion and finding solutions to the traffic problems, as well as education and development. As state senator, those are the priorities that I will work on.

Robert Jackson

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

Dennis Hastert

It is important that when we rebuild this historic city that we consider the safety of the citizens first.

Jacques Delors

It is impossible to speak of citizenship in Europe without posing the question of the current weakening of democracy within each of our countries.

I watch C-SPAN all the time. I feel like it's one of the last bastions for the common citizen to have their say.

Bruce Campbell

I think citizens groups ... are able to do a lot more,

I think he's rendered good and valuable service to the citizens of Kootenai County,

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

Jennifer Granholm

It is critical to coordinate, ... I want to repeat to all those great citizens out there who want so much to give, don't just send food or blankets or toys or clothes. We don't know where it's going to. It has to be coordinated.

Justin Baldoni

I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the world; that's what I prefer.

Rod Paige

I'm still a citizen of the United States and of Texas, ... And I'm proud of the Texas record in education.

I have found it increasingly difficult to meet my obligations to the citizens of Millville and the students and staff of our schools.

Eddie Izzard

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

I am disgusted by the way citizens in the county are treated.

I am looking forward to welcoming our new citizens to Newcastle and I would like to wish them well for the future.

I am here today as an American citizen and an engineer whose life has been devastated by that (H-1B) program.

I am here as an American citizen because of my family who were immigrants.

I am just encouraging citizens to walk for our health and our wealth, ... This is actually going to help with the gas situation and our health as well.

Patrick Fitzgerald

He claims to be a citizen but he is not an American, ... He claims to be a religious man, but he is not a true Muslim.

He knows this state as well as any citizen knows this state,

There are simply not enough legal residents or citizens in the U.S. to fill all the jobs in our economy. Anti-immigration people are in deep denial about that.

Charles Kennedy

I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.

I can only imagine what our citizens feel like when they watch this and read about this. I grow weary too.

John Danforth

France is clearly going to defend French troops and French citizens that are under attack.

frightening the public with tales of a drug so seductive it instantly turns masses of upstanding citizens into addicts who ruin their health, their lives and their families.

Kentucky has a fairly good system in place to try to get the information out to the public and the press and make sure citizens have tools to hold their government accountable.

John Henderson

Just let the record note that this is also a victory for the citizens of Onslow County,

Mike Woods

I think it's a fine example of citizens getting involved in the government process and having a major impact on the system by simply stepping forward.

Richard Perle

But even a nation of laws must understand the limits of legalism. Between 1861 and 1865, the government of the United States took tens of thousands of American citizens prisoner and detained them for years without letting any one of them see a lawyer.