Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

I am just encouraging citizens to walk for our health and our wealth, ... This is actually going to help with the gas situation and our health as well.

I am really interested in the community, especially the citizens in Ward 2. I love Auburn and want to see it continue to take the path it's been taking for awhile.

I am ready, willing, and would be honored to serve the citizens of San Juan County,

Mohammad Khatami

I am sure these people have evil aims. They intend to foster violence in society, and we shall stand in their way ... We take the security of our country and our citizens very seriously,

Richard Perle

But even a nation of laws must understand the limits of legalism. Between 1861 and 1865, the government of the United States took tens of thousands of American citizens prisoner and detained them for years without letting any one of them see a lawyer.

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.

Nothing enrages citizens more than the suspicion of a creeping loss of sovereignty,

John Danforth

France is clearly going to defend French troops and French citizens that are under attack.

frightening the public with tales of a drug so seductive it instantly turns masses of upstanding citizens into addicts who ruin their health, their lives and their families.

Dick Cheney

I encourage you and your fellow citizens to work at home and in the world for the growth of international cooperation.

I look forward to speaking with the citizens of Pulaski County about how the judicial system works. Not only am I willing to present the Pillar of Justice Program about the court system, I'm also willing to speak at special events such as Memorial or Veteran's Day, or during special school activities.

Jan Brewer

I have a responsibility as an elected governor to govern and when I say govern, that means to make sure that our citizens are safe and we need the federal government to step up and do their job. They need to secure our borders.

Mitt Romney

I feel very deeply that the people's voice should be heard -- that a matter such as the definition of marriage is fundamental in our society, and that the citizens should have a right to be heard,

Jose Antonio Vargas

I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage.

I can only imagine what our citizens feel like when they watch this and read about this. I grow weary too.

I have found it increasingly difficult to meet my obligations to the citizens of Millville and the students and staff of our schools.

Eddie Izzard

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

I am disgusted by the way citizens in the county are treated.

I am looking forward to welcoming our new citizens to Newcastle and I would like to wish them well for the future.

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.

Anthony Carmona

Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours.

This serious and costly issue is harming our state and its citizens and deserves effective solutions.

Jane D. Hull

No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.

Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

David Suzuki

Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.

Ralph Richardson

But I would present it as a citizens petition, not ours,

Robert Jackson

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

The government has zero right to prohibit private citizens from living out their faith and sharing it with other folks in schools.