Citizens Quotes

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Leadership, Best, Woman

Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.
George Nethercutt

History, Learning, Focus

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.
Robert Anderson

Become, Expect, Demanding

Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
Patrick McHenry

Government, Help, Important

I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state.
Dave Heineman

Work, Family, Live

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.
Carlos Mesa

State, Create, Needs

The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
Thomas Vilsack

Government, Future, State

Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.
Thomas Vilsack

Health, Care, Job

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.
Tom Ridge

Liberty, Gift, Precious

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.
Dave Freudenthal

Dreams, Judge, Envy

Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
Viktor Yushchenko

Again, Once, West

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State.
John Culberson

State, Union, Serve

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
Ana Castillo

Parents, American, Citizen

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.
John H. Reagan

Men, Made, State

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
Marcus Porcius Cato

Hard, Matter, Since

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.
Thomas Carper

Legal, Important, Together

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints.
John Coleman

America, Place, State

A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.
John Coleman

American, Listening, Lead

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.
John Rawls

Themselves, Ask, Reasons

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.
Matt Dillon

Legal, Through, Means

It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.
James Roosevelt

Successful, Poverty, Social

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.
John Hawkins

I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves, and I am proud to have authored the bill signed into law today that continues to put significant pressure on the brutal Burmese military junta.
Joseph Crowley

Today, Law, Cannot

I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned.
Henry Laurens

Present, Shall, Hold

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.
Bob Goodlatte

May, Small, Shopping

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.
Johanna Siguroardottir

Women, Equality, Rather

We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.
Atifete Jahjaga

Leadership, History, Future

We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.
Atifete Jahjaga

Time, Government, Democracy

It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
Vic Snyder

Age, Important, Senior

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.
Sheldon Jackson

Best, Living, American

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