Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.
~By Vito Fossella ~
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
~By Fritz Kreisler ~
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 ~
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
~By Lope de Vega ~
Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.
~By Richard Neal ~
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 ~
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 ~
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
~By Robert Peel ~
It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
~By Robert Jackson ~
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 ~
Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
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 ~
Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.
~By Tommy Chong ~
We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.
~By Jim Ryun ~
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 ~
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 ~
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
~By Jackie Robinson ~
With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
~By Julian Casablancas ~
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned.
~By Henry Laurens ~
It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
~By Helen Rowland ~
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 ~
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.
~By Nora Roberts ~
Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
~By John Murray ~
To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour.
~By John G. D. Clark ~
But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.
~By Jeb Bush ~
Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.
~By Chris Frantz ~
I call architecture frozen music.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
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 am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
~By Nat King Cole ~
The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'
~By Craig Kilborn ~
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
~By Camille Paglia ~
A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.
~By James Inhofe ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
~By Thomas Vilsack ~
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 ~
The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling.
~By Charles Moore ~
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 ~
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
~By James F. Cooper ~
In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
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 ~
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
~By Harold Pinter ~
If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.
~By Michael D. Barnes ~
Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
~By E. T. Bell ~
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 ~
Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.
~By David Sylvian ~
While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.
~By Boris Trajkovski ~
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
~By James Madison ~
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
~By Daniel P. Moynihan ~
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 ~
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
~By Douglas Sirk ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
~By Noah Webster ~
Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.
~By Raquel Welch ~
I thought that the AIVD was there to protect citizens like me.
~By Theo Van Gogh ~
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
~By Edward Everett ~
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
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 ~
Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.
~By Ari Fleischer ~
So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.
~By Alma Guillermoprieto ~
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
~By Carl Sagan ~
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.
~By Bob Taft ~
The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.
~By Rosie O'Donnell ~
But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.
~By Conrad Burns ~
It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest.
~By Roger Mahony ~
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 ~
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
~By Viktor Yanukovych ~
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
Architecture in general is frozen music.
~By Friedrich von Schelling ~
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
~By Douglas Horton ~
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
~By Eugene V. Debs ~
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
~By Plato ~
Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
~By Alan Cranston ~
For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.
~By Eric Anderson ~
When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
~By Mitch Daniels ~
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
~By Robert M. Pirsig ~
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 ~
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
~By Jose Saramago ~
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
~By Edward de Bono ~
We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?
~By Mitch Daniels ~
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
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 ~
We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.
~By Dick Gregory ~
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 ~
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