Citizens Quotes - Page 23

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.

I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.

My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you.

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state

Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.

My fellow Americans, it has been the honor of my life to serve you. I won't stop. In fact, I will be right there with you as a citizen for all my remaining days.

Why did I become a Canadian citizen? Not because I was rejecting being a U.S. citizen. At the time when I became a Canadian citizen, you couldn't be a dual citizen. Now you can. So I had to be one or the other. But the reason I became a Canadian citizen was because it simply seemed so abnormal to me not to be able to vote.

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.

[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.

I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power]. Were it necessary to verify this experience by particular proofs, they might be multiplied without end. I might find a witness in every citizen who has shared in, or been attentive to, the course of public administrations.