Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Roberts

We are particularly proud of Outlook, ... Many of our sections are dedicated to informing our citizens about city involvement, projects and programs (that) make them feel good about living in Lancaster.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

Marquis de Lafayette

No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.

Rick Moranis

Until 1982, Canada Day was known as Dominion Day. I always thought that had more of a ring to it. Beyond the zippy alliteration, it reminded us citizens that our domain of orderly domesticity was graced by the dominant power of our 'Dominus.'

We need to establish a plan that would evacuate citizens off the peninsula for sure.

Ludwig von Mises

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

We found a wonderful group of private citizens at a makeshift shelter.

Marsha Blackburn

Citizens United fought to defend our right to free speech - and won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court.

We have a two-fold mission: To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure just and equal treatment to all citizens alike.

We need them to do that, and they need to do that for the citizens of Jacksonville.

Linda Thompson

Those are things that citizens and people that are getting proactive in their communities are addressing. Getting the word out there is important.

Those are the kinds of issues we as citizens need to figure out together.

Jack Johnson

We are deploying resources to house our new citizens and to ease their suffering.

Edmund Stoiber

Unfortunately, we don't have such intelligent citizens everywhere as we do in Bavaria.

We're not second-class citizens. We pay taxes. We want the same quality of life that's west of I-35. We're very adamant about that we're going to get it because I'm going to hound you every Thursday and be in front of your face.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

In sports, I was representing my country, but in politics I represent people directly. I have always lived with a cause. In army, it was the existence of the sanctity of nation and the men I was commanding, and in sports, it was the pride of my country, while in politics, it is the rights of citizens I am fighting for.

Carol Bruce

We need to have experienced positive leadership in offices. We've done a lot for the town and we're proud of that and I think the citizens will see that and come out to support us.

Richard Boucher

We have worked closely with Mexican authorities to take the appropriate steps to ensure the safety and the security of U.S. citizens in Mexico,