In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
I’m not an American citizen, but I live in this country and eventually want to become an American citizen because I love this country so much.
It is hard for the media to outright label a sitting president a white supremacist, or even a garden variety racist. If Trump was still a private citizen, this would be easier.
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She’s a U.S. citizen, so I’m a U.S. citizen.
I’m an average citizen and always have been.
The old image of Tonto and the Lone Ranger was one that we, as Indian people, didn’t care much for; it was kind of a second-class citizen.
Now, I do not, on any level, possess the expertise to argue about the science of anthropological global warming. Nor do you, most likely. This certainly doesn’t mean an average citizen has the duty to do the lock step.
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it’s an assault on citizenship.
I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.
I felt early on I wasn’t going to be a respectable citizen.
The Citizen’s Petition reflects Vermont’s spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the ‘Campaign to Fix the Debt’ for calling attention to one of the country’s most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.
Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
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.
I have been to China. I noticed that wherever you went, you could ask an ordinary citizen, and he would explain, in detail, about free markets and all the other jargon of liberalisation.
The sheer density of advertising creates a psychic mass, an overlay that can sometimes be very tense or aggressive. As a citizen, you have to participate in that every day. You have to walk by until it’s changed.
A lot of us were worried that the secular fabric of the country was under threat and it was time that citizens begin to speak out. Hence we called ourselves Citizen Speak India.
I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
I’m a Canadian citizen, but I do have a green card.
I am overwhelmed and I am glad I can make my parents proud by becoming a Canadian citizen. It has been a long journey becoming a Canadian citizen.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
I’ve always felt like in a democracy – this is how I was raised – that as a citizen, it’s your duty to work hard for the agenda of the country.
If you don’t have an academic brain, if you are not interested in maths or science, you are treated as a second-class citizen.
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved – it’s the citizen who changes things.
I’m a writer. In Latin America, they say I’m a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I’m also an American writer.
The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can’t Washington?
It takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It’s what’s in our souls.
A scared journalist produces a lifeless citizen. If our news is scared of the government, it is great injustice to readers and viewers who have been cheated in the name of news.
The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms under the Constitution. Each of you is under the Constitution, and so is the King. I am using my freedom under the Constitution.
As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn’t assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
It isn’t life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for some – it is declared for all of us. So let’s celebrate America by defending the right to vote – for every eligible citizen, everywhere in America.
What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
When I help a farmer, I don’t differentiate between them based on their region, as farmers have no borders. I want to live like a world citizen and react like a human being.
Every day I walk down the street or hop on the subway, I am reminded that I am a citizen of a very big, incredibly diverse world.
No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
My father spent all those years building his brand. I happen to be his namesake, and I also happen to be the president of the largest Christian university. I think I have a responsibility to be a good citizen. The least I can do is to lend my name and whatever influence I have to make a difference politically.
Part of the mystique of blogs is their protean quality: They work both sides of the divide between politics and media, further blurring the already fuzzy distinctions between reporter, pundit, political operative, activist, and citizen.
I love how ‘melodrama’ is a denigrated term – a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that’s what life is, man.
What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators… they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren’t?
Once you step foot on the Supreme Court steps, you lose your first-amendment rights. I don’t see how, as an American citizen, you can’t go to the Supreme Court steps and speak your mind or speak your piece peacefully.
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.
I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in power because, at the end of the day, they work for every citizen.
We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.
I’m a socially concerned citizen of India. I have strong views on issues of social and political relevance. But it’s very difficult to voice it in an intelligent manner without it sounding contrived. Because people think you’re saying or doing all this as a PR exercise, not from your heart.
The Voter Expansion Project’s mission is clear: Ensure that every eligible citizen can register, every registered voter can vote, and every vote is accurately counted.
I plan on becoming an American citizen and bringing over my family.
I wanted to participate in the political responsibilities of an American citizen. I wanted to vote. I wanted to be a full member of the American community. I made America my home country. It’s my identity in many ways.
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen’s right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else’s idea of what need is.
I personally think ‘Chimes of Midnight’ is a much better film than ‘Citizen Kane.’
As a citizen, hopefully I’m humanist. As an artist, I’m free.
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen’s wars as they are the veterans’ wars. If we don’t assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we’re in a very bad situation.
Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen – even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land – is among the gravest that government leaders can face.
