Famous Quotes & Sayings

We definitely want the hospital here in Stafford for our citizens.

Philly is a city made up of many neighborhoods - more than a hundred, in fact - and the citizens can be very territorial.

West Hartford has some of the most civic-minded citizens anywhere. They take their issues and their leaders very seriously.

Western nations now realize that if they contain this in Southeast Asia, in fact they might minimize the jeopardy to their own citizens. They are now starting to put money into helping these countries develop surveillance systems, helping these countries to prepare to contain this disease within their own countries.

Hassan Rouhani

Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.

Ambrose Burnside

Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitution and the laws, to put down rebellion, and to protect the persons and property of the loyal and peaceable citizens of the State.

Allyson Schwartz

My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.

Os Guinness

There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

Dannel Malloy

I don't think that we'll support any state that is prepared to discriminate against the citizens of Connecticut.

The question is whether this moment continues. Does this shape the way they see themselves as citizens and does this become part of their view of themselves as voters? And if it does it can have a lasting impact. The real stakes here are long-term.

The proposed shift in software will be paid for by the taxpayers, businesses, and regular citizens of Massachusetts,

Tips from citizens are critical. The public is literally our eyes and ears in the field.

Corrine Brown

This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation.

Paul Robeson

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

Victor Ponta

Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

Bernie Sanders

History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country.

Bernie Sanders

Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

Roy Wilkins

The players in this drama of frustration and indignity are not commas or semicolons in a legislative thesis; they are people, human beings, citizens of the United States of America.

While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.

We wanted to get the citizens another avenue, another way to contact the city about the services they need.

We wanted to find out what it is citizens are expecting of us.

We have 14 million underemployed Americans. We need to put our fellow citizens to work. Many are legal immigrants. We're protecting the American dream.

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.

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.

The only time elected officials are really dangerous is when they don't think we the citizens are paying attention.

Ron Johnson

the physics of fire are pretty much the same. And we're still here to serve the citizens of Yakima.

There are a large number of Mexican citizens who come for medical care. Regular Mexican nationals are passing away in hospitals in Tucson. It happens quite a bit.

Mick Mulvaney

There are jobs that American citizens will not do. We can talk about why that is. We can talk about how our welfare state is broken, how we encourage people not to work, but that doesn't help the farmer pick his peaches this summer.

There has to be a path to citizenship for the people who are here now. They're not taking jobs away from Americans; these are jobs Americans don't want.