Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Warner

Most of the stuff they have is the same stuff they've always had, but now there are people saying, 'You know, I'm not going to limit myself to what the institution is giving me.' It's a matter of citizens saving themselves.

Most people think we're crazy, ... But it's about learning different cultures and languages. Experiencing different food, meeting different people. These were hard decisions, to sell our stuff, to just leave. We're leaving family, too. But this endeavor allows us to be citizens of the world.

Wendy Kopp

Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.

Mr. Robertson is, of course, no ordinary private citizen.

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

Eduardo Saverin

I thought of myself as a global citizen.

Aristotle

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

Eliot Engel

These are three American citizens and we really demand answers for American citizens.

Elinor Ostrom

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

Efraim Zuroff

The only hope we have here is that his Austrian citizenship gets cancelled.

Christopher Bond

Let's honor the memory of the victims of 9/11 and their families by working hard to protect our citizens and our country.

Gene Luen Yang

Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.

Teresa de Lauretis

Many Italians today refer to themselves as citizens of a Third World country, which they are in many ways, not simply economically.

Many citizens who oppose gay marriage also oppose civil unions.

Several of our officers have been around for quite a few years, and the citizens know them on a personal basis.

Robert McNamara

She was one of the greatest citizens of our country of the past half-century.

She will be with a strong family, I can guarantee the citizens of New York about that.

We expect witnesses and jurors to come in and do their duties as citizens do their job and do justice. And when they are threatened or harassed they are less likely to do that. It erodes everything we're trying to do as prosecutors.

Dick Durbin

Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge.

Edward Snowden

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

Chuck D.

We want to make sure the city is offering the services that our citizens need and desire.

We're continuing to do the same things we did two or three years ago, ... It's an excuse to take more money out of the citizens' pockets.

Sharron Angle

What we need is to make our senior citizens feel secure once more with their own Social Security and Medicare. But going forward, we need to personalize that program in a way that the government can't go in and raid it any more.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.

Rick Perlstein

Republican governors are more lunatic than they used to be - as attested by all the ones so eager to turn down free federal money to qualify more of their poor citizens for Medicaid under Obamacare. Meanwhile, some states have taken the money only to hoard it.

Let Project Quest get back to work and train the citizens of San Antonio.

Edward Kennedy

major breakthrough in our effort to give senior citizens the prescription drug coverage under Medicare they need and deserve.

People were vocal; they let the county know and they let the media know that they were very unhappy that illegal aliens could march in the street, but law-abiding citizens who just wanted to get together and have a Town Hall meeting and talk were turned away.

Brian Schweitzer

Only by working together will we be able to form a stable, long-term energy policy that protects the citizens and ratepayers of Montana and protects our environment, while further strengthening our economy,

Nobody's been more critical of Citizens than I have. But I will tell you that without Citizens, 25 percent of the people in homes in this state, they would not have insurance, they would not have a mortgage, they wouldn't be able to sell their homes.

One of the difficulties is when the veterans are given a tax break, the rest of the citizens are going to be taxed more heavily.

Tom Daschle

I was struck by how vacant the galleries were and so few seniors citizens looking down, ... What you saw instead were lobbyists packing the halls. They will do well. Our seniors will not, and that is why the fight will go on.