Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Prudhomme

We have a responsibility as citizens to do what we can for each other,

We have instructors come in and actually teach the citizens about what the police department does on a regular basis.

We're looking right at this point at any and all less-than-lethal instruments and devices that would provide public safety for citizens and police officers.

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.

Dennis Prager

The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

Dennis Prager

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic

Dennis Prager

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

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.

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.

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.

Ha-Joon Chang

Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

Zubin Mehta

Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

Tim Pawlenty

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

John C. Calhoun

There is no direct and immediate connection between the individual citizens of a state and the general government. The relation between them is through the state. The Union is a union of states as communities and not a union of individuals.

David Blunkett

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

Nick Clegg

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.

We are concerned that the IMF and the World Bank's conditions for a small civil service is unrealistic, going by the number of citizens who seek Government services on daily and hourly basis,

Aaron Swartz

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

We were able to identify another piece of property and stop the eminent domain proceedings. Much of that is a result of citizens coming to us to consider other sites.

We depend on the generosity of the citizens here to make the program the success it is today. We are always so grateful for the Grand Prairie spirit.

We demand a recount. People must know how citizens voted.