Quotes About Citizenship

Turnout is good for the system.

Obama is the closest thing to a Latino that we have. Barack. Everybody wants to see his birth certificate too.

To the left, immigration is anybody who gets in, anybody who wants to come gets in. And that's not what immigration is. That's illegal immigration. And that's what is opposed.

The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.

Democrats, Republicans, independents, people across America. If you don't vote for me, I still want to be your president.

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

I would be very happy to go to America. America is where I was raised and that's exactly what I want.

I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.

People want the government to go back to the people.

Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.

I'm very progressive in a lot of ways, but I'm a very proud American. It sounds so corny to say, but I am and have always been very... I'm just so proud. I don't ever not want to live in America.

I think we don't need to be talking about hyphenated Americans, because we are all Americans, and we all want the same thing.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.

When you have your own people fleeing their homes it's not because they found a job somewhere else... then you have something to fix in your country.