Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.
~By Martin McGuinness ~
Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
~By Jeff Cooper ~
I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there.
~By Howard Baker ~
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
~By Patti Smith ~
The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
~By Laura Miller ~
I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.
~By Sheena Easton ~
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.
~By Paul Walker ~
Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.
~By Daniel Inouye ~
But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.
~By Cliff Stearns ~
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.
~By Craig Kilborn ~
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
~By Brendan Francis ~
They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
~By James A. Michener ~
And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.
~By Billy Tauzin ~
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
~By Paul Begala ~
I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.
~By Richard McKenna ~
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
~By Helen Prejean ~
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
~By Francis Bacon ~
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.
~By William Scranton ~
It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.
~By Jason Schwartzman ~
I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.
~By Billy Connolly ~
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
~By James Otis ~
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.
~By David Blunkett ~
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly.
~By Joe Gold ~
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
~By Ralph Nader ~
The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.
~By Richard Perle ~
Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.
~By Edward Dmytryk ~
The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.
~By Patrick Macnee ~
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
~By Daniel P. Moynihan ~
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
~By Bill Vaughan ~
In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.
~By Grover Norquist ~
Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.
~By Conan O'Brien ~
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.
~By John Linder ~
But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
One rose says more than the dozen.
~By Wendy Craig ~
I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
~By Mikhail Kalashnikov ~
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
~By Fritz Kreisler ~
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.
~By Marsha Blackburn ~
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
~By William Beveridge ~
When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
~By Wilson Mizner ~
Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
~By Viktor Yushchenko ~
The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.
~By Daniel Hannan ~
My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.
~By Lee Greenwood ~
The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.
~By Nick Mancuso ~
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.
~By Judith Krantz ~
I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.
~By Martha Reeves ~
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
~By Yuan T. Lee ~
I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.
~By Sarah Palin ~
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.
~By William H. Wharton ~
I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.
~By Martin Sheen ~
Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.
~By Raquel Welch ~
A woman is a citizen who works for Mexico. We must not treat her differently from a man, except to honor her more.
~By Adolfo Lopez Mateos ~
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
~By Derek Walcott ~
Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
~By Louis L'Amour ~
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
~By Barack Obama ~
These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.
~By Matt Dillon ~
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
~By Warren Buffett ~
We care little about what the average citizen thinks.
~By Tom Metzger ~
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?
~By Dana Carvey ~
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
~By Pauline Kael ~
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
~By Jane Byrne ~
When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
~By Nathan Deal ~
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
~By James H. Meredith ~
Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.
~By Kathleen Blanco ~
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
~By Harlan Stone ~
I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.
~By John Linder ~
Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
~By Budd Schulberg ~
They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.
~By Cole Younger ~
It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
~By Helen Rowland ~
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