Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ralph Nader

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

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.

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.

Fred W. Friendly

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

You can't enjoy freedoms, you can't think about the quality of life of your citizens, you can't think of a future for your citizens or jobs or economic prosperity, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, if you can't provide a level of security for the country itself.

The Council is being strengthened as an institution, and the citizens of the city will be better served as a result.

Kimberly Elise

We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.

We will be promoting students to be effective communicators and contributing citizens.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

Russia has been entirely proportionate in its military response to Georgia's attack on Russian citizens and peacekeepers.

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.

Paul Newman

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

Christine Pelosi

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.

George Washington

At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We are citizens of eternity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

Condoleezza Rice

The Egyptian government must fulfill the promise it made to its people - and to the entire world - by giving its citizens the freedom to choose. Egypt's elections, including the parliamentary elections, must meet objective standards that define every free election,

Steve King

The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.

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.

Richard Burr

Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

I am still an Indonesian citizen.