Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think voters have sent a strong message this past election that they want someone who will go down and work on issues that are priorities for the citizens in the district. Like traffic congestion and finding solutions to the traffic problems, as well as education and development. As state senator, those are the priorities that I will work on.

Bruce Campbell

I think citizens groups ... are able to do a lot more,

I think he's rendered good and valuable service to the citizens of Kootenai County,

Randall Terry

Our policies are immoral. This has nothing to do with helping the citizens of China. This has to do with fattening the wallets of American big business.

Our quality of life of our citizens is impacted by the tourism economy that we have,

Jim Turner

Ordinary citizens have to look at their income as opposed to their expenses and determine where they're going to make cutbacks, ... They just decided they needed more money and raised taxes.

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

Peace and prosperity prevails when citizens are law abiding.

Robert Stewart

Our only intent was the safety of the survivors and the citizens of this state.

People have a right to be a citizen in all its aspects.

Bertie Ahern

Such a proposal would show citizens the EU was working in their interests.

George Murphy

Sure we have our backsliders. But for every backslider we have hundreds of fine, clean, decent, law abiding citizens in Hollywood. These are the ones who interest me. The others don't exist. I'm not interested in their antics. They're bums.

Geoff Mulgan

States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary.

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.

For us having a single standard of citizenship for all New Zealanders irrespective of race remains a very important objective indeed.

For the time being there is no reason to panic in Europe. The risk for citizens to have this virus is minimal.

Billy Graham

In a world that might say one vote doesn't matter..., it does matter because each person is of infinite worth and value to God... Your vote is a declaration of importance as a person and a citizen.

Sonam Kapoor

I'm a socially concerned citizen of India. I have strong views on issues of social and political relevance. But it's very difficult to voice it in an intelligent manner without it sounding contrived. Because people think you're saying or doing all this as a PR exercise, not from your heart.

Robert Jackson

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

The government has zero right to prohibit private citizens from living out their faith and sharing it with other folks in schools.

We need to get a group of citizens together to forge ahead. We need to present something such as a vision to PAT. Before we do anything, we must have a comprehensive plan and it must be up to date.

The government's failure to provide equal protection to all of its citizens and its refusal to implement court orders have grave implications for the rule of law in Zimbabwe.

The government had an obligation to tell and inform all EU citizens of our voting rights. They didn't do this,

Aaron Schock

Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.

We wanted to get the citizens another avenue, another way to contact the city about the services they need.

We wanted to find out what it is citizens are expecting of us.

We have 14 million underemployed Americans. We need to put our fellow citizens to work. Many are legal immigrants. We're protecting the American dream.

Exxon is a good corporate citizen but it does not work for the welfare of the country.

Ralph Richardson

But I would present it as a citizens petition, not ours,

Anthony Carmona

Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours.

This serious and costly issue is harming our state and its citizens and deserves effective solutions.

The only time elected officials are really dangerous is when they don't think we the citizens are paying attention.