Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Blunkett

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

David Blunkett

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

When an indictment is delivered at the front door of the White House, the Office of the President is defiled. No citizen can take pleasure from that.

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

Frank Roberts

We are particularly proud of Outlook, ... Many of our sections are dedicated to informing our citizens about city involvement, projects and programs (that) make them feel good about living in Lancaster.

Ha-Joon Chang

Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

Zubin Mehta

Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

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.

Leila Janah

In order to thrive in the 21st century, you have to be a savvy citizen of the digital economy or risk being left behind.

We are concerned that the IMF and the World Bank's conditions for a small civil service is unrealistic, going by the number of citizens who seek Government services on daily and hourly basis,

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.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

In sports, I was representing my country, but in politics I represent people directly. I have always lived with a cause. In army, it was the existence of the sanctity of nation and the men I was commanding, and in sports, it was the pride of my country, while in politics, it is the rights of citizens I am fighting for.

Carol Bruce

We need to have experienced positive leadership in offices. We've done a lot for the town and we're proud of that and I think the citizens will see that and come out to support us.

Richard Boucher

We have worked closely with Mexican authorities to take the appropriate steps to ensure the safety and the security of U.S. citizens in Mexico,

We have to worry about the weather. Most of our volunteers are senior citizens and they walk very gingerly.

Marquis de Lafayette

No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.

We need to establish a plan that would evacuate citizens off the peninsula for sure.

Ludwig von Mises

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

Aaron Swartz

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

We were able to identify another piece of property and stop the eminent domain proceedings. Much of that is a result of citizens coming to us to consider other sites.

We depend on the generosity of the citizens here to make the program the success it is today. We are always so grateful for the Grand Prairie spirit.

We demand a recount. People must know how citizens voted.

We definitely want the hospital here in Stafford for our citizens.

John Perkins

We want to have enough units to entice senior citizens to stay. Seventy-two is not enough.

Philly is a city made up of many neighborhoods - more than a hundred, in fact - and the citizens can be very territorial.

We need them to do that, and they need to do that for the citizens of Jacksonville.

Linda Thompson

Those are things that citizens and people that are getting proactive in their communities are addressing. Getting the word out there is important.

Those are the kinds of issues we as citizens need to figure out together.

Jack Johnson

We are deploying resources to house our new citizens and to ease their suffering.