Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Newman

No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.

Mitch Daniels

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

Mirra Alfassa

There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of good will, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme truth.

Potter Stewart

May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am a Roman citizen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

Noam Chomsky

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

For the first time, normal citizens focused on this issue, weighed the evidence and found their public trust was violated.

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.

Ralph Nader

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

Socrates

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

Socrates

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

Medgar Evers

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.

Martha Plimpton

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

Ted Cruz

The proper way to make policy changes is for you to convince your fellow citizens that there is a better policy outcome than the current one. And then in state legislatures, for those state legislatures to vote that change.

I just love the people. The citizens of Urbandale make Urbandale what it is.

Hu Jintao

By meeting the legitimate demands of its citizens for freedom and openness, China's leaders can help their country grow into a modern, prosperous and confident nation.

Citizens will be concerned with impact to traffic, whether they will be able to get in and out of their driveway, how their sidewalks will be affected.

Mike Easley

Citizens should not panic, ... but it is critical that we continue to conserve our fuel.

Mitt Romney

citizens should not be excluded from a decision as fundamental to society as the legal definition of marriage.

Citizens of the United States expect their government to be there in times of disaster and they were not there.

Patrick Fitzgerald

Citizens of state deserve honest government from their secretary of state and their governor and expect no less.

Citizens are taking time to participate. That's the sunshine that works. Lawmakers do hear the voice of the people if they speak loudly enough.

Citizens are not happy about the sales tax. They will not be happy about their property taxes going up, but people do indeed seem to understand the state is having hard fiscal times and solutions are hard to come by.

Bill Gates

Citizens are interested in more information if they can easily reach out and get it.

I'm praying they're going to give him his citizenship.

Mitch Daniels

I'm just here because I'm hopeful of getting citizens of west-central Indiana and all of Indiana excited about it,

I have no intention of paying taxes because my partner are considered second-class citizens due to laws that prevent us from being married because we are two men. Hello, we don't have the same tax law rights as heterosexual married couples filing income tax. Very unfair.