Famous Quotes & Sayings

People's emotions are very frayed, ... And returning citizens will often be more irritable dealing with their own issues. People coming back will be under more pressure more stress.

Normal citizens opened their homes and offered pilgrims restrooms, cookies and drinks. Their hospitality taught me to try to be more giving in my daily life.

After the election November 7, from the point of view of the citizens, ... all votes were equal, but some votes were more equal than others.

Mo Ibrahim

Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow.

George F. Will

Actually, there is only one ''first question'' of government, and it is ''How should we live?'' or ''What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?''

Spanish citizens must be consulted before Congress takes irreversible steps.

Rosa Parks

so that the citizens of the United States may pay their last respects to this great American.

Frank Jackson

So what we have to do is let them know how important this election is for the future of the city, how important it is for their well-being as citizens of the city of Cleveland.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The relationship between citizens and government is increasingly mediated through the Internet.

There was a lot of outcry from the citizens over vineyard impacts.

a strong signal from the federal judiciary that Georgia has gone too far in impeding the right of citizens to vote.

Thomas Jefferson

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.

The more profit we make, the more stores we can open, the more donations we can make to our community, the more responsible citizens we can be for the environment. It's all interactive. It's all connected together. There's no separation.

A lot of the food we sent over with the firefighters they shared with desperate citizens of Mississippi, who were hungry, who had hungry children. They shared what they had.

John Doolittle

A man of unwavering principle and honor, President Reagan epitomized the American dream and encouraged his fellow citizens to do the same.

American citizens generally have been targeted for kidnapping and other terrorist actions.

This is a city that has gone through cataclysm, and its citizens are desperately ready to let off some steam. This is going to be a Mardi Gras for the ages.

This is an embarrassment to our department, and especially to all our personnel who went to Louisiana and served honorably in helping the citizens of that state to recover from the clutches of disasters.

This is a matter of such great importance to not only Mr. Shaffer, but to all the citizens of Jacksonville.

It results in unnecessary secrecy that leaves citizens in the dark.

It really should be characterized as two taxpaying citizens being thrown off campus. They should not characterize it as a personnel matter, but as us, people outside the system, non-employees, who have a problem with the way a school is operating.

For many years we've been concerned that citizens just don't feel connected with their elected officials. There's not a lot of interest until something happens and then there's complaints. We thought this would help to increase interest in government and voting.

This points out the need to have private enforcement. It gives private citizens some recourse to protect themselves.

This (ordinance) looks like a pure taxation on the citizens of Marion.

There's 27 U.S. citizens missing as we speak.

Your name is on the list and there is no recourse for you as a citizen. If his name is on one list then it could be on other lists I don't even know exist. It is sort of scary. I feel there is no accountability from the government.

Phil Klay

You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you're supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well.

Sue Miller

This is not a plan that is motivated by what the citizens need or want. This plan is not driven by need.... but by greed.

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.

Solon

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

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

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.