Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Prager

The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

Dennis Prager

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic

Dennis Prager

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

Edwin Edwards

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen

Ben Stein

And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.

David Warner

Most of the stuff they have is the same stuff they've always had, but now there are people saying, 'You know, I'm not going to limit myself to what the institution is giving me.' It's a matter of citizens saving themselves.

Most people think we're crazy, ... But it's about learning different cultures and languages. Experiencing different food, meeting different people. These were hard decisions, to sell our stuff, to just leave. We're leaving family, too. But this endeavor allows us to be citizens of the world.

Wendy Kopp

Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

Milt is the best-preserved senior citizen I've ever come across,

Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

We have instructors come in and actually teach the citizens about what the police department does on a regular basis.

We're looking right at this point at any and all less-than-lethal instruments and devices that would provide public safety for citizens and police officers.

The face of hunger doesn't have a particular color, and it doesn't come from a particular neighborhood. They are your neighbors, they are working Americans, they are senior citizens who have worked their entire lives, and they are children.

Aristotle

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

Eliot Engel

These are three American citizens and we really demand answers for American citizens.

Elinor Ostrom

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

Efraim Zuroff

The only hope we have here is that his Austrian citizenship gets cancelled.

The primary goal of our lacrosse program is to prepare them to compete in the sport, and to teach the players individual discipline, values and how to become a better citizen in our society. The coaches of our team will be outstanding role models for the players, school and community.

We need a representative in Harrisburg who will stand for the hard-working citizens of Pennsylvania and not fatten his own pocketbook at the expense of ours.

Gene Luen Yang

Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.

Teresa de Lauretis

Many Italians today refer to themselves as citizens of a Third World country, which they are in many ways, not simply economically.

Many citizens who oppose gay marriage also oppose civil unions.

Several of our officers have been around for quite a few years, and the citizens know them on a personal basis.

Robert McNamara

She was one of the greatest citizens of our country of the past half-century.

She will be with a strong family, I can guarantee the citizens of New York about that.

Tim Pawlenty

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

John C. Calhoun

There is no direct and immediate connection between the individual citizens of a state and the general government. The relation between them is through the state. The Union is a union of states as communities and not a union of individuals.

Nick Clegg

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.

Eugene Debs

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Bernie Sanders

History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.

Bernie Sanders

Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

The question is whether this moment continues. Does this shape the way they see themselves as citizens and does this become part of their view of themselves as voters? And if it does it can have a lasting impact. The real stakes here are long-term.

The proposed shift in software will be paid for by the taxpayers, businesses, and regular citizens of Massachusetts,