Top 490 Citizen Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Citizen Quotes from famous people such as Adam Grant, Morley Safer, Russell Crowe, George Packer, Gordon B. Hinckley, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see

When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
Adam Grant
I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.
Morley Safer
No matter how long you’d been in the country, if you weren’t in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 – when I was particularly busy filming overseas – you can’t become a citizen.
Russell Crowe
As America has grown less economically equal, a citizen’s ability to move upward has fallen behind that of citizens in other Western democracies. We are no longer the country where anyone can become anything.
George Packer
Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.
Gordon B. Hinckley
I just wanna write about what I am living as a citizen. That’s all.
Jain
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.
Carly Fiorina
Questions regarding the future of India are not for me to decide. I am not a citizen of India or an Indian politician.
Jagmeet Singh
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I’m afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in ‘The Nation’ or not. But you want to participate.
Tony Kushner
If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.
John O. Brennan
I am a proud, not Texan, but a citizen of Dallas.
Rachel Lindsay
Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
Safra A. Catz
I had applied to become French – or, rather, Franco-American, as I’m now a dual citizen – partly because I could: I’d lived and paid taxes here for long enough.
Pamela Druckerman
My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife’s grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States.
Nicholas Kristof
I’m not an American citizen.
Bill Browder
I’ve been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.
Wesley Snipes
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.
Seamus Heaney
China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world stage. For example, we should want China to be a bigger participant and a bigger shareholder in the IMF. We should want it to be an even more active participant in the G8 and G20.
Roger Altman
In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.
Jason Alexander
I’m just an American citizen like everyone else and I’m not sitting at the power table in the room where it all happens.
Hasan Minhaj
I am for deporting all recent unattached illegals. I am for a local citizen panel to consider certification of those who have been here 25 years and have family and community and have been law-abiding and tax-paying.
Newt Gingrich
Conservatives cannot deny that our Founders intended the judiciary as an equal and independent branch of government purposed to ensure the protection of every citizen’s rights.
Margaret Hoover
I would rather be an aware citizen, and if an opportunity were to arise where I would have to make a statement, I would happily do that.
Amitabh Bachchan
I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.
Robert Fulghum
It’s not just lip service when I say I’m going to fight for the people. I’ve done that as a citizen already.
Lauren Boebert
As a candidate, Trump could make outlandish statements with little regard for their Constitutional implications. As President, he is pledged to respect the Constitution’s authority, and the specific rights and protections it guarantees to every American citizen.
Reid Hoffman
As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
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.
Robert Byrd
A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.
Barton Gellman
Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
Barack Obama
I’m obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I’m not looked at as an American.
Ana Castillo
Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the

Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the ‘War & Peace’ of games, the ‘Citizen Kane’ of games, and not just be warming up George Romero.
Clive Barker
As a responsible citizen and a role model to a certain section of people, I need to use every available platform to reach out to the impressionable sections of our country.
Sangram Singh
I’m a very bad citizen. I’ve never even voted.
Jerry Hall
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.
Paul Gillmor
I think most women do not want to be treated as sort of a special class of citizen.
Martha MacCallum
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.
Henry David Thoreau
I did not endorse Trump, because I had condemned President Obama for telling us what to do in our referendum. But I did say that if I was a U.S. citizen, I would not vote for Hillary Clinton even if she paid me.
Nigel Farage
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.
Wallace Shawn
Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
Bao Dai
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Gunter Grass
If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
George Bernard Shaw
At DonorsChoose.org, you can give as little as $1 and get the same level of choice, transparency, and feedback that is traditionally reserved for someone who gives millions. We call it citizen philanthropy.
Charles Best
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.
Billy Corgan
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
Andrew Eldritch
I can’t begin to describe how humiliating it is for a law-abiding citizen to be cross-examined in a court of law for a crime he hasn’t committed.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?
Jose Rizal
I’m a very law-abiding citizen, and I’ve never consciously broken any law. I get nervous just jaywalking in Los Angeles!
Gillian Jacobs
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.
James Callaghan
The citizen’s job is to be rude – to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
John Ralston Saul
Why shouldn’t I do what I want to do… I’m an American citizen.
Steve Prefontaine
College is supposed to be a place that prepares its students for the real world. That’s the entire purpose of attending! Learning how to be an engaged citizen is something that should be encouraged in this kind of environment, not restricted.
Kat Timpf
I don’t feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there’s a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you’re not a national.
Salman Rushdie
It took me 17 years to become a U.S. citizen.
Pramila Jayapal
When you have a senior citizen who can’t afford her prescription medicine, Washington is broken.
Wayne Messam
Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.
Jared Cohen