Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

we may be governors of the Federal Reserve but we are also citizens of this country.

Viktor Yanukovych

We must improve our lives and we will do it together -- all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine...,

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.

David Vitter

I was really uplifted here. There are heroes to this story and they are the local leaders and private citizens who banded together in the individual communities that were devastated to just get the job done in the initial days, with no help in those initial days coming in from outside, they got it done and they are the real heroes.

If we do that, we're setting ourselves up for something a whole lot worse. We need to make sure that everyone's interests are taken into consideration, but the interests of U.S. citizens should be predominant.

James Mitchell

If we had waited for the government to get us out of there, we would have died. It took the citizens there to get us help.

If we do not take extra taxes, we will not be able to provide what citizens depend upon us for.

If the citizens can only (rely on) the government to defend their property, then the right to a clean and healthful environment is an extremely limited right.

If the federal government did their job, citizens would not be taking the law into their own hands. I'm sympathetic to their goals, but would prefer security tasks be handled by professionals.

Craig Johnson

What makes us fundamentally different is that we give citizens the tools to become informed, organize themselves and then to take action, ... People can form or join groups, contribute money or time, or dialog with their representatives with just two clicks of their mouse.

We've been told that it will take a state law to have the culvert covers removed. Some of our citizens are taking it into their own hands, and the covers are gradually coming off.

Charles Kingsley

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

Donald Tusk

We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.

Harry Belafonte

We've taken citizens from this country without the right to be charged, without being told what they're taken for, we've spirited them out of this country, taken them to far away places, and reports come back with some consistency that they are being tortured, that they're not being told what they've done. And even some who have been released have come back and testified to this fact.

Alan Dershowitz

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

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.

Mitt Romney

Of course, citizens also failed. Tom Ridge, former head of homeland security, said each of us should have a two-week supply of water and medical supplies and food. It looks like very few people listened to what he had to say,

Nature treated (the citizens of these countries) equally, but their governments are not treating them equally.

Now the citizens of Champaign have taken a liking to us. Our record release show was at a venue called the High Dive in Champaign and over 600 people attended.

New Hampshire has taken a number of steps to make themselves a leader nationally in preparing for pandemic influenza. Preparation works, and these funds will help states and communities develop the plans they need to keep their citizens safe.

Sathya Baba

Observe the laws of the state and be an exemplary citizen.

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.

We need a representative in Harrisburg who will stand for the hard-working citizens of Pennsylvania and not fatten his own pocketbook at the expense of ours.

Chuck D.

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

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.

Edward Said

And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood historically - without any sympathy - you are going to be thought of as unpatriotic, and you are going to be forbidden. It's very dangerous. It is precisely incumbent on every citizen to quite understand the world we're living in and the history we are a part of and we are forming as a superpower.