Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth May

I don't think they are, but it falls to us to make sure, as the citizens of Ontario, that this does not happen.

Peter May

How far should public officials go in protecting somewhat indifferent citizens who have other concerns?

However, his opinion involves a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages from the citizens of San Diego,

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

Certainly, the Uzbekistan government owes its citizens and owes the international community a serious, credible and independent investigation of these events. And we are continuing to push for such an investigation with the government of Uzbekistan and with our partners in the international community.

By contrast, the indefinite military detention without trial of citizens seized in the United States because of suspected wrongdoing is far from a fundamental incident of waging war.

Hopefully in the end, we will have citizens who are better educated about the environment and the importance of protecting it.

Honeywell is showing complete disrespect to the citizens of this community.

Honestly, I think the citizens of this county, the taxpayers, expect us to do the right thing here. We're just trying to go by the simple principle of how would you like to be treated if in this situation.

Morley Safer

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

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.

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.

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.

Hilaire Belloc

But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.

Henry L. Stimson

Their racial characteristics are such that we cannot understand or trust even the citizen Japanese.

Naomi Wolf

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

Malcolm X

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

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.

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.

The challenge, which it's aggressively taken on with the Target2010 project, is to shape its explosive growth by generating quality jobs and opportunities for its citizens versus quantity.

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).