Citizen Quotes

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.

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.

A woman is a citizen who works for Mexico. We must not treat her differently from a man, except to honor her more.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

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.

Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

I am a citizen of the world.

We care little about what the average citizen thinks.

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.

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.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour.

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.

The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen.

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

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.

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

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.

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.