Famous Quotes & Sayings

As a whole, I think he did exactly what the citizens of the parish expected: to take control and take a leadership position in getting us through the disaster,

Russell Pearce

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.

It was a rough week, without enough rest, but it doesn't compare to what the citizens of that state went through.

Johann Koss

It's a very small office. But this gives us a leverage point to reach all Americans, to make global citizens in our mission to create a healthier and safer world.

Kathleen Blanco

I want citizens who are in the coastal parishes to start making preparations to leave now,

Coming after Peter Harvey and at a time citizens are so skeptical of government, to appoint a political operative is dreadful.

In any immigration reform, there should be a clause that allows the regularization of all citizens ... not just Mexicans, but other nationalities.

I know they've had some problems with their heavy equipment. The judge has said they're going to repair everything they've damaged. I think they're willing to be good citizens and keep the roads repaired also.

Najib Razak

The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.

Solon

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

Jimmy Carter

Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position that we don't like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.

The Legislature is supposed to represent the citizens of the state, and I don't think on this issue they're reflecting the will of the people.

John Monks

The Commission has sided with the general employer offensive on working time. Now the Commission has failed in its duty, the ETUC expects the Parliament to confirm its earlier stance and protect Europe's citizens from longer and longer working hours.

The citizens of Wisconsin have truly lost a conservation legend.

Patrick Fitzgerald

The citizens of this state deserve honest government.

The citizens of Selma have a strong desire to help people who are in need, ... We have a lot of people in our town that are not being serviced. What I'm trying to do is fill (the void).

Ariel Sharon

The citizens of Israel deserve leadership which acts, first and foremost, for the good of the public, and not for the narrow political interest,

The citizens are understandably upset. They really do have issues that need to be dealt with.

The citizens are not in favor of that.

Frank Chodorov

At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.

Morley Safer

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

John Ashcroft

America's farmers should not be used as pawns in foreign policy disputes, ... The only people hurt by food embargoes are U.S. farmers and innocent citizens of other countries.

Jack Johnson

All of these citizens coming here will be treated with dignity and respect and love, ... And we will help them get back on their feet.

Elayne Boosler

Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.

Edward Bellamy

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

The mayor has abused his power, the citizens of this city have to do something about that.

Don Wallace

The main purpose is to connect to a large number of our citizens that are supportive of the city seal and let them know how they can get involved and how they can support the issue.

James Madison

I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power]. Were it necessary to verify this experience by particular proofs, they might be multiplied without end. I might find a witness in every citizen who has shared in, or been attentive to, the course of public administrations.

James Madison

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.

James Madison

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

John Culberson

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State

Linda Chavez

When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

Lewis Black

I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.