Citizens Quotes - Page 39

My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

As a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal - in all of those areas, I am looking forward to the end of the Bush administration with every fiber of my being.

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.

People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

The possibility of endangering Nevadans will never happen under my watch. I will do everything I can to protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.

For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the First Amendment. Only in recent years have we witnessed this corporate takeover of our First Amendment, culminating in the Citizens United ruling.

Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.

Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.

If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin learning how that might be done. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position... that we don’t like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.