Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
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 ~
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
~By Eugene V. Debs ~
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
~By Arlen Specter ~
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 ~
Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.
~By Richard Burr ~
It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.
~By Hugh Shelton ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.
~By Lyman Trumbull ~
I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
~By David Attenborough ~
Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.
~By Doc Hastings ~
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 ~
This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.
~By Anatoly Karpov ~
In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.
~By Peter DeFazio ~
Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?
~By Gwen Ifill ~
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 ~
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
~By Jane Rule ~
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
~By Patti Smith ~
Architecture in general is frozen music.
~By Friedrich von Schelling ~
The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States.
~By Horace Gray ~
And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.
~By Mitt Romney ~
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 ~
A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.
~By Giorgio Morandi ~
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
~By James Madison ~
But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.
~By Andrew Shue ~
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 have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.
~By Matt Drudge ~
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 ~
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 ~
Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.
~By Marty Meehan ~
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
~By Larry Niven ~
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
~By Cormac McCarthy ~
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 ~
They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.
~By Julia Roberts ~
I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.
~By Conrad Hall ~
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 ~
It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
~By Maurice Hinchey ~
My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.
~By Joseph Bologna ~
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
~By John Foster Dulles ~
Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.
~By Jim Walsh ~
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State.
~By John Culberson ~
Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment.
~By Howard Baker ~
The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
~By Warren Beatty ~
Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.
~By Nick Mancuso ~
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 ~
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
~By William Beveridge ~
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 ~
Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
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 ~
Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce "gubernatorial."
~By Jimmy Fallon ~
Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.
~By Dave Freudenthal ~
A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.
~By James Inhofe ~
But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
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 ~
I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
~By Jose Saramago ~
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
~By John L. Lewis ~
I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
~By John le Carre ~
I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order.
~By Tom McClintock ~
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
~By Robert Bolt ~
In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.
~By John Shadegg ~
American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
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 ~
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 ~
My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
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 ~
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 ~
As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
~By Billy Corgan ~
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
~By Antonin Scalia ~
The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.
~By Michael Steele ~
Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.
~By Gene Clark ~
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 ~
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 ~
Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.
~By Daniel Hannan ~
The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
~By Gerry Adams ~
Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.
~By John Ralston Saul ~
I've done a dozen or two dozen infomercials.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.
~By John Hawkins ~
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 ~
Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
~By Harry A. Blackmun ~
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 ~
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 ~
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