Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tony Judt

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

Tony Judt

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

Steven Erikson

You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating.

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.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

Richard Burr

Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

Marco Rubio

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

Sheila Jackson Lee

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.

Shane Smith

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

Shahrukh Khan

I can't say that only the citizens litter. I must say that I have also been wrong in doing this. We need to ban plastics and be a little careful with garbage.

Samuel Adams

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

Solon

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

I am still an Indonesian citizen.

Ray McGovern

Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general get up and say, "Well, it doesn't say in the constitution judicial process. It just says due process." Now that's a lawyerly diversion from the truth.

Thomas Jefferson

For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to say, of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.

Taylor Caldwell

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Val Kilmer

One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's making criminals better criminals. We're breeding them like rats and it has to change.

Stephen Colbert

Citizens United said that transparency would be the disinfectant, but (c)(4)'s are warm, wet, moist incubators. There is no disinfectant.

Sonia Sotomayor

The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.

Tim Walberg

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

Thomas Friedman

We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

Viggo Mortensen

One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

Robert Fulghum

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

Robert Kennedy

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

Richard Rorty

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.

Trevor Noah

I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.

Rick Scott

I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote.

Rick Scott

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

Ronald Reagan

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

Walter Lippmann

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

William Randolph Hearst

Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.