Top 490 Citizen Quotes

As a captain of industry, I would prefer more tax breaks to help people buy houses, but as a citizen, I realize someone has to pay.
Glenn Kelman
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.
Alexis Arguello
I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, ‘Citizen Kane’, James Dean movies, etc, etc.
Tommy Wiseau
I’ve campaigned for people. I’ve campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.
Caroline Kennedy
I care about politics just like any other citizen. I’m against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.
Enrique Iglesias
In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.
Henry James Sumner Maine
It’s been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen – a natural born citizen.
Ted Cruz
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.
Ernest Istook
The state exists to serve and protect every citizen, regardless of colour, creed, race or religion – and the welfare state should exist to and protect the populace in the same non-discriminatory and universal manner.
Mehdi Hasan
‘Unlikely Brothers’ talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.
John Prendergast
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
James Fenimore Cooper
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt
Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American’s rights into consideration.
Ron Wyden
Every citizen’s vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.
Gene Green
I also expected a lot from Modi, like every citizen. Talking is different; delivering is important.
N. Chandrababu Naidu
I’m a happy person but an angry citizen.
Lewis Black
When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody’s Americanness because they disagree with you – is about one of the most un-American things I can think of.
Pete Buttigieg
I'm a Christian, a wife, a mother, a homeschooler, a co

I’m a Christian, a wife, a mother, a homeschooler, a conservative, a citizen journalist, a talk radio host, an insatiable music nerd who plays a poor rhythm guitar, a blogger, a proud granddaughter of a sailor, and a proud tea partier in awe of the potential and the people in this movement.
Dana Loesch
Sometimes just being on a beach with my loved ones is all the adventure I need. I am a happy camper and continue to be a citizen of the world. I have yet to discover other cultures, other peoples’ dreams and treasures. I will always be a traveler who is discovering beautiful Gaia.
Guy Laliberte
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.
Kurt Loder
We have to govern by treating every single citizen equally.
Martin McGuinness
If I became president now I would immediately pass a law that makes every citizen a policeman or a soldier.
Fela Kuti
I am the epitome of a citizen legislator.
Ron Johnson
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth’s best interests and our citizen’s pressing needs.
Jim Clyburn
I am a citizen of the world.
Abbas Kiarostami
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
Michael Chabon
In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a great place to be.
Sandra Tsing Loh
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?
Dana Carvey
Yes, there’s Montreal, but my real home, where my kids were born, where I became a citizen of this country, is New Jersey.
Martin Brodeur
The inexorable rise of the Internet and the citizen journalist presents us all with challenges for the future.
Dominic Grieve
I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don’t have borders.
Eva Green
My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older brother was also deported.
Diane Guerrero
If you’re going to have a free economy, one in which the ordinary citizen can dispose of his own income, you’re going to have people who dispose of it in an anti-social way.
Roger Scruton
Citizen journalism and even our ethnic press could be harmed by big companies deciding where we can get our news.
Maya Wiley
Obama’s IRS is not the IRS I’ve ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
Michael Moriarty
I like ‘Citizen Kane,’ I like ‘The Godfather,’ all the ones that everyone should see, whether you’re an actor or not.
Matt Bomer
I was born in the 1960s. I came up in the 1970s. I know how race relations were. The thing is, I want to advance the ball and never return to those days again. I want to keep the topic going. I’m going to discuss it. And we’re going to make America better. It’s my job as a citizen, and I demand it.
Shannon Sharpe
I am still an Indonesian citizen.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
After living and working in Milan and Paris, I arrived in New York City 20 years ago, and I saw both the joys and the hardships of daily life. On July 28, 2006, I was very proud to become a citizen of the United States – the greatest privilege on planet Earth.
Melania Trump
I wish I could be proud of being an Israeli citizen, but how can I do that when I’m not really recognized as a full citizen?
Sayed Kashua
I really like my first movie a lot, ‘Kicking and Screaming.’ I think it’s a – I’m very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn’t the – it wasn’t ‘Citizen Kane’ right out of the box, you know? It wasn’t ‘Sex, Lies and Videotape.’
Noah Baumbach
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.
Lynn Redgrave
I’d spent the whole summer working in Manchester filming Citizen Khan and then went straight into the last couple of weeks of my wife’s pregnancy.
Kris Marshall
As Democrats, we believe in giving every eligible citizen the opportunity to vote – whether it’s early because they can’t take off work on Election Day or absentee because they might have plans to be out of town.
Donna Brazile
When we carried out air strike across the border after the Pulwama terror attack, we had told the international community that we took that step in self-defence only. We had told the international community that the armed forces were instructed not to harm any Pakistani citizen or its soldier during the strike.
Sushma Swaraj
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.
Robert Peel
I live surrounded by threats. I must stay alert. I am a law-abiding citizen; have never broken any rule while driving. But if someone clicks a photo or shoots a video, I have to be suspicious of their intentions.
Ravish Kumar
The Democratic Party has become the party of the coastal elite, and the Republican Party is the party of the working class and that average American citizen who’s been struggling over the past eight years with Obama in the White House.
Ronna McDaniel
The president felt that it was important to send an ord

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
Christa McAuliffe
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen – a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children – I learned a lot.
Patti Smith
I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.
Diane von Furstenberg
I believe every citizen feels the same way about the Sewol Ferry incident.
Park Bo-young
It’s very difficult to explain to a normal working citizen the implications of what $18 trillion in debt means and what it means when the Federal Reserve buys the U.S. Treasury bonds to finance our loss every month.
Steve Wynn
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
Satchel Paige
I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.
Martin Sheen
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
Werner Herzog
I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
But I don’t want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don’t like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven’t become a citizen.
Lynn Redgrave
No matter that you’re a British citizen, no matter that you were born here – your skin colour means you do not have the same rights as others to express critical opinions about your own country.
David Olusoga