Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits.
~By Chanakya ~
I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.
~By Michael Ondaatje ~
I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
~By Kenzo Tange ~
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 ~
The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
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 ~
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
~By Samuel Gompers ~
From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
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 ~
Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
~By John L. Lewis ~
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
~By Len Wein ~
A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.
~By James Roosevelt ~
Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.
~By Robert Sternberg ~
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
~By Joseph Sobran ~
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
~By Kate D. Wiggins ~
After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.
~By Robert MacNeil ~
Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
~By Daniel H. Hill ~
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.
~By Alexis Arguello ~
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
~By Quintus Ennius ~
There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.
~By Amar Bose ~
The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.
~By Jim Hightower ~
I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
~By Pat Oliphant ~
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.
~By John Shadegg ~
We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.
~By Jim Cooper ~
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
~By Michael Chabon ~
Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.
~By Gary Miller ~
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 ~
I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.
~By Robert Anderson ~
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.
~By Eliot Ness ~
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 ~
We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.
~By Andrew Shue ~
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.
~By John Lynch ~
I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year,... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help.
~By Ann Robinson ~
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
~By Elijah Cummings ~
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 ~
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
~By Edmund Burke ~
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 ~
I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge.
~By Ron Kind ~
I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.
~By Leverett Saltonstall ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.
~By David Brin ~
I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.
~By Ron Silver ~
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
~By William Weld ~
We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty.
~By Jose de Diego ~
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
~By Harold Pinter ~
President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
~By Andrew Young ~
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 ~
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
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 ~
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 ~
What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.
~By Peter Singer ~
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 ~
I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.
~By Duke Kahanamoku ~
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.
~By David Letterman ~
As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.
~By Mark Shields ~
We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
~By Charles Rangel ~
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
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 ~
They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.
~By Craig Kilborn ~
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.
~By Clarence Day ~
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
~By Ramsey Clark ~
Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.
~By Thomas Carper ~
Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
~By Zach Wamp ~
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.
~By Kurt Loder ~
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.
~By John Jay Hooker ~
Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.
~By Emmanuel Teney ~
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
~By Elihu Root ~
Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.
~By Richard Perle ~
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
~By Richard Perle ~
The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.
~By Richard Stallman ~
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
~By Ralph Nader ~
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
~By Gerry Adams ~
Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.
~By Bill Weld ~
Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
~By Arlen Specter ~
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
~By Dora Russell ~
If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.
~By William Greider ~
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
~By William Trevor ~
Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
~By J. D. Hayworth ~
I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected.
~By Charles F. Bass ~
For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.
~By Len G. Murray ~
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 ~
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