Famous Quotes & Sayings

I expect citizen journalism to really take off at regional and local level: citizens reporting about what goes on in their area, on their street.

Dick Cheney

I encourage you and your fellow citizens to work at home and in the world for the growth of international cooperation.

Jan Brewer

I have a responsibility as an elected governor to govern and when I say govern, that means to make sure that our citizens are safe and we need the federal government to step up and do their job. They need to secure our borders.

Mitt Romney

I feel very deeply that the people's voice should be heard -- that a matter such as the definition of marriage is fundamental in our society, and that the citizens should have a right to be heard,

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.

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.

Harry Belafonte

We've taken citizens from this country without the right to be charged, without being told what they're taken for, we've spirited them out of this country, taken them to far away places, and reports come back with some consistency that they are being tortured, that they're not being told what they've done. And even some who have been released have come back and testified to this fact.

Alan Dershowitz

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

Charles Kingsley

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

Edmund Burke

We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

Edward Said

And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood historically - without any sympathy - you are going to be thought of as unpatriotic, and you are going to be forbidden. It's very dangerous. It is precisely incumbent on every citizen to quite understand the world we're living in and the history we are a part of and we are forming as a superpower.

Paul Prudhomme

We have a responsibility as citizens to do what we can for each other,

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Jane D. Hull

No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.

Conrad Black

I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.

Chuck D.

The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.

William Simmons

The expertise of a number of our Easton citizens was quite helpful,

Donald Trump

[Donald] Trump is right when he says Ted Cruz citizenship has never been litigated!

Donald Trump

When has the pope ever questioned the faith of another private citizen?

Diogenes

Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world .

David Baldacci

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice.

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.