Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Pawlenty

Our people are working. Our students are learning. And our citizens are healthy.

Our rights are not given to us by society, ... My view is that our rights come from God. We start our sessions with the Pledge of Allegiance. It's to say you are a citizen of this country and I think that is very appropriate.

Our first priority is to provide information to U.S. citizens to try to meet their needs.

Laura Bush

Our first priority is to get help to those who have been injured, and to take every precaution to protect our citizens at home and around the world from further attacks,

William Garrison

Our country is the world, our countrymen all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us, than are those of the whole human race.

our understanding that this American citizen is no longer in Afghanistan.

Our trade negotiators are pushing a plan that would undermine the forest protections that U.S. citizens fought so hard to obtain,

Retailers get it, they understand the value of being a good citizen.

RESPLENDENT, adj. Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the Scheme of Things as an elemental unit of a parade.The Knights of Dominion were so resplendent in their velvet- and-gold that their masters would hardly have known them. --"Chronicles of the Classes

Jacques Chirac

reflection, which I shall devote to explaining to my fellow citizens what my feelings are on this crisis and the means to remedy it.

Bob Taft

Recent, severe increases in gasoline prices in my state are, to say the least, baffling. Our citizens are demanding, if not complete answers, at least some rational justification for this dramatic price increase.

Jeffersonian principle of (an) informed citizenry being necessary for democracy. It's a window on the operations of government and the performance of government officials.

Jews have not only become equal citizens in Western democracies, they have become leading citizens. And, of course, the reestablishment of the State of Israel has given Jews a political presence in the world they have not had since biblical times.

I say now and have often said before, Fathers of the Senate, that a well-disposed and helpful prince, to whom you have given such great and unrestrained power, ought to be the servant of the Senate, often of the citizens as a whole, and sometimes even of individuals.

People are just sort of grasping at straws. I mean, the truth is that the citizens of the state are pretty perceptive, and non-issues don't get them all stirred up,

Jen Lancaster

Our citizens never hesitate to take sides against one another, whether it's Democrats versus Republicans, Coke drinkers opposed to Pepsi enthusiasts or Yankee loyalists against Red Sox aficionados.

Our citizens have always been very cooperative in passing levies. They usually vote quite well for this.

Our citizens are paying the price for our dependence on foreign sources for too many years and we need to stop that,

My slogan is ordinary citizens pay so millionaires can play. We don't mean that local people want to shut out the rest of the world. But we don't want to be shut out either.

Hun Sen

My only request is that I want to be a normal citizen. I don't need anything. I would like to recognize the Royal Government and the policy of the Royal Government and the constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia,

My mom was already a U.S. citizen, and that made it easier for everybody else. But we were a family of laborers. We picked grapes, peaches, walnuts, almonds.

Local officials are relying on youth curfews as one way to ensure the safety of the citizens in their communities. The findings of this poll show that enhanced officer training and creative partnerships are common elements in local programs aimed at reinforcing youth curfews.

Phil Klay

Marines and soldiers don't issue themselves orders; they don't send themselves overseas. United States citizens elect the leaders who send us overseas.

Mardi Gras will set us back on the path to economic revitalization. Millions of tax dollars will flow back and help pave the way to providing the opportunity for every one of our citizens to come home from all over the United States.

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.

LaToya London

I think they are looking for, defiantly looking for personality as well as talent. I think they want a good person, a model citizen overall.

Jimmy Carter

It is an opportunity to explore issues of mutual interest between our citizens and to share ideas on how to improve the relationship between the United States and Cuba,

Joe Black

It is a wonderful thing to see, the values that these kids are learning. There is a great story with just about every one of them, and the big thing is that because of First Tee there are a lot more good citizens coming out.

I think supporting youths and the senior-citizen population is important. The people in the middle can fight for themselves a little better.

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.