Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty – the cause of humanity.
It is of course one of the great joys of our country, a beacon of democracy that the world admires, that every citizen is equal under the law – even the prime minister – and no one, not even him, is above it.
My home town called me a citizen of honour. So I’m a special citizen now.
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
In short, corruption destroys the ‘deal’ – the bargain – between the citizen and the state; and it harms the poorest most.
The Second Amendment was passed in an era when organized police forces were few and citizen militias were useful in maintaining the peace.
People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.
I am proud to be an American Citizen.
I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it’s the best possible combination.
No citizen or social group can be completely isolated from politics, because policy decisions and actions affect their lives.
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
I’m an American citizen. I pay my taxes. I want my equal rights. But this is my country, and consequently, I don’t want to open up for ISIS or for anybody that will take away what we’ve already gained.
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
I am a citizen of the planet and I want to do films that appeal to people, not communities.
I do believe we can do more to bring the U.N. closer to the world’s citizen and make a real difference in their lives.
It is not an exaggeration to say that under Obama, the naturalization process – becoming a citizen – no longer requires becoming an American. The real tragedy and the real crime of the Obama plan for accelerated naturalization of millions flows from the redefinition of citizenship as a triumph of multiculturalism.
My concern as a citizen and as a money manager is, Oh my God, at what point does a ‘whoa’ moment happen to these people who own $30 trillion fixed income instruments?
As of today, if I am asked abroad if I am a free citizen of the United States of America, I must only say what is true: No.
I’m a first-generation kid in this country. I so identify with America and its culture. I’m a citizen, I was born here. I’m American. At the same time, like most first-generation kids, I have this other identity to another country back home, which is India.
No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.
Email is a senior citizen. It’s been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.
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.
I think that anybody, once we leave Jamaica, automatically, any citizen becomes an ambassador for the flag, for Jamiaca. It’s a country that’s so rich in culture. We even have a bobsled team, and we ain’t even got snow. We do everything in extreme.
My personality is that I’m a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.
We wouldn’t take a gun away from a law-abiding citizen. We wouldn’t take a gun away from anyone.
The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers’ rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe… and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen.
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
We are fighting for free, fair and transparent elections, which means that every citizen of Belarus will be able to participate in those elections.
Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.
Before you’re a writer, you’re a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.
I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.
My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he’s the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
I remember when we were making ‘They Call It Pro Football,’ which was our ‘Citizen Kane.’ The first line is ‘It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.’
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
The power to arrest – to deprive a citizen of liberty – must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one’s birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one’s own.
It’s time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.
I think processes should not differ just because you are a minister. This is a job – a responsibility – not a right to override the processes that every citizen goes through.
Our focus is to get citizen astronauts to experience the ‘overview effect,’ return to Earth, and then impact their communities.
If you’re running a dictatorship, you don’t really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
I take my job really, really seriously. I also take being a citizen very seriously.
Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn’t want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.
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.
I am a legal immigrant whose parents went from Russia to China to Chile to finally reach the United States and thereby give me a chance to have a better life. I served six years in the U.S. Army Reserve, went to college, have a successful career and have dedicated my life to being a good citizen.
I’m pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.
I regard myself as an international man, a citizen of the earth.
I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.
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.
To me, serving wasn’t uncommon, and my service paled in comparison to so many of my friends who had done so much more. In my world – as a citizen soldier – I was surrounded by other soldiers just doing their jobs.
For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver’s license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it’s crucial that everybody have a citizen’s stake in the nation’s welfare.
If I was a Greek citizen I’d be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.
If we want to make India strong, we need cooperation of every citizen and develop capability of all Indians.
I want to make one thing clear: I am proud to be a citizen of a country in which a prime minister can be investigated like any other citizen.
I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn’t know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
