Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
~By William Beveridge ~
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 ~
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.
~By William Blum ~
The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.
~By John Lynch ~
I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.
~By Jerry Hall ~
Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.
~By Jo Bonner ~
It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
~By Vic Snyder ~
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.
~By Jared Diamond ~
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 ~
The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.
~By Jerry Rubin ~
Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
~By Charles Edison ~
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 ~
I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
~By Wallace Shawn ~
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
~By Andrew Johnson ~
Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.
~By Chris Frantz ~
To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.
~By Robert Byrd ~
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
~By Allen Weinstein ~
In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.
~By Arthur Bremer ~
For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.
~By Brad Henry ~
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
~By Seamus Heaney ~
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 ~
This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.
~By Martin Sheen ~
But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.
~By John Thorn ~
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 ~
In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.
~By Oliver North ~
Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.
~By Allen Klein ~
If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.
~By John Dingell ~
With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.
~By Todd Solondz ~
Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.
~By John Conyers ~
Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well.
~By Joe Henderson ~
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 ~
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'
~By Mitch Hedberg ~
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.
~By John Coleman ~
State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
~By Ernie Fletcher ~
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
~By James Callaghan ~
First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.
~By Aleksandr Lebed ~
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 ~
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
~By Ernest Istook ~
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
~By Linda Chavez ~
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 ~
It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and we won't get to an economic recovery without a moral recovery as well. So a citizen's movement about values and economics I'm finding all over the country on main street, and Wall Street needs to pay attention to that.
~By Jim Wallace ~
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 ~
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
~By Ad Reinhardt ~
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.
~By Paul Robeson ~
Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.
~By Gene Clark ~
Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
~By Rick Perry ~
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
~By Richard Perle ~
But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens.
~By Al Roker ~
You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.
~By James E. Rogers ~
And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
~By John Sergeant Wise ~
The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
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.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.
~By Joseph Bologna ~
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
~By David Brin ~
The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.
~By Lyman Trumbull ~
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
~By George Will ~
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
~By James Madison ~
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
~By Franz Kafka ~
There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.
~By John Conyers ~
We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.
~By Andrew Shue ~
The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be.
~By Thomas Jordan Jarvis ~
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
~By Viktor Yanukovych ~
With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
~By Julian Casablancas ~
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
~By Robert M. Pirsig ~
The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee.
~By Leonid Kuchma ~
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat.
~By Christine O'Donnell ~
Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.
~By Michael Medved ~
Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.
~By Nick Mancuso ~
Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.
~By Alexis Arguello ~
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.
~By Michael Ignatieff ~
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
~By Thomas Cochrane ~
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
~By Jackie Robinson ~
I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.
~By Lynn Redgrave ~
Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.
~By Thomas Vilsack ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.
~By John Linder ~
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
~By Margaret Mead ~
But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.
~By Jane Byrne ~
I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
~By Warren Beatty ~
She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.
~By Lee Child ~
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
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