Quotes About Citizenship

I'm always going to be a New Zealand fighter. I'm a Kiwi, of course, and I've still got my New Zealand passport.

Israeli Arabs don't have to go. But if they stay, they have to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish Zionist state.

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A Bostonian - an American, broadly speaking.

I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.

Canada is a society, rather than a nation.

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

We shall be Canadians first, foremost, and always, and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.

The habitant is the true Canadian, for he has no other country.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities.

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

The forgotten man. He is the clean, quiet, virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

We need to be constantly reminded that this is a representative democracy, and we need to be in tune to what people are talking about.

I'm a triple citizen of the United States, in Switzerland and Tunisia. And actually beyond just my immediate family, all of my family is abroad.

I mean, Turkey is my country. You know, it's my flag. That is where we're raised... My family is born there. So that's why, like, it's tough to see that... your country don't want you.

I have always found it jarring to encounter people born and raised in, say, Switzerland, who are denied its citizenship and still considered Algerians or Turks.

The 1986 act didn't turn illegal immigrants into citizens on the spot. It granted temporary resident status only to those who could prove they had resided continuously in America for five years. After 18 months, their status could be upgraded to permanent residency, and only after another five years could they become U.S. citizens.

I would never turn my back on my fellow citizens.

There's the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as opposed to citizens. The more credible hypothesis, I think, is that there is a kind of trauma, a social trauma that is passed on from generation to generation.

At a time when this country needs a good military, the last thing we need to be doing is turning out of our military of people who served and then bringing in people who are illegally in the country.