Citizen Quotes - page 6

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen. (Eli Pariser)
To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible. View quote
Eli Pariser
As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. View quote
Eric Alterman
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. View quote
Ernest Istook
I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen. View quote
Edwin Edwards
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. View quote
Ginny Brown-Waite
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. View quote
Goldwin Smith
I am an Israeli-born American citizen. View quote
Guy Oseary
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago. View quote
Jane Byrne
I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family. View quote
Jason O'Mara
The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen. (Jean-Bertrand Aristide)
In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world. View quote
Jill Lepore
And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood. View quote
John Sergeant Wise
Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here has never been about blood or genes. It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings. View quote
Julian Baggini
As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs. View quote
Kurt Huber
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. View quote
Kurt Loder
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse. View quote
Kate Braverman
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. View quote
Lynn Redgrave
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. View quote
Lynn Redgrave
The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it. View quote
Larry Sabato
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. (Matt Drudge)
There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me. View quote
Matt Drudge
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs. View quote
Paul Gillmor
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. View quote
Robert Byrd
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. View quote
Robert MacNeil