Quotes About Citizenship

Recently, there has been considerable public concern about the fact that 47% of Americans pay no income tax; the presidential candidate Mitt Romney opined that these are people "who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them. . . . These are people who pay no income tax.

If this is the United States, mail me home.

IN THE AUTUMN of 1944, the Soviets received the first of many intelligence reports directly from Los Alamos. The spies overlooked by Army counterintelligence included Klaus Fuchs, a German physicist with British citizenship, and Ted Hall, a precociously brilliant nineteen-year-old with a Harvard B.S. in physics. Hall arrived in Los Alamos in late January 1944, while Fuchs came in August as part of the British team led by Rudolf Peierls. Fuchs

Although the British Home Office knew all about his communist past, by the spring of 1941 Fuchs was working with Peierls and other British scientists on the highly classified Tube Alloys project. In June 1942, Fuchs received British citizenship—by then, he was already passing information to the Soviets about the British bomb program.

Americans need to be engaged and invested in the legislative process that affects their daily lives, otherwise we are just democracy in name only.

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have.

I brought attention to the fact that people need to be more involved in politics and not just let the establishment continue to control politics.

You will see us going forward talking about those things to bring Iran in compliance: not just of the deal, but of the international community and what is expected to be a good community citizen.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Government should give citizenship to anyone irrespective of religion.

No, I do not have dual citizenship with Israel. I'm an American.

I love Israel because Israel is a democratic country.

Israel has the right to demand full allegiance from all its citizens.

We know that 99.9% of Arab-Israelis are loyal to Israel.

We are fighting to keep Israel a democracy - not just in terms of its electoral system but also in terms of its values.

Am I an Israeli? That's a good question.

Israeli Arabs are equal citizens.

I have dual citizenship with Italy.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

Those who carry out anti-national activities should be put in jail.

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

Maybe I would go back to West Jerusalem without too much bother if I could lie to my kids and tell them they are equal citizens in a democratic state.

I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because in order to fit in and to be accepted and to be a citizen in Israel, you need a Jewish mother.

There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel has full personal equality of citizenship but extends national rights only to the Jewish people.