Quotes About Citizenship

All of us, as citizens, need to kind of get over our classisms and vote for the betterment of us all.

Me myself, I'm not a big fan of the idea of countries.

America needs a big idea that plays to its strength. It should look to national service.

I would like it to be the rules all round the world that that is the case - you manage the country of your birth.

I have always believed in enforcing the border, and doing that before you do amnesty.

I'm not for amnesty. People must play by the rules. And border enforcement must come first.

I've gone across that border many times. My son was born in the United States; he is also a Mexican-American with the two passports.

We need to be talking about things like the DREAM Act. We need to also be talking about e-verify. We also need to be talking about border security.

Most Americans do not support amnesty, especially without securing the borders.

I was born in the U.S. This is my country.

I think it's very important to be part of the Boston society and the people who live in Boston.

I think, when people think of NFL athletes, they forget that they are citizens of this country, that they are bothered by the problems that we all face.

I consider myself a Londoner first, and then I consider myself Brazilian before I consider myself English.

I am Scottish. I am also British.

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

Our mission... it will be difficult, it will take time, it will be demanding for all men and women... will be to act in such a way that French people of the Muslim faith are always more proud of being French than of being Muslim.

If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck.

The governments of south Sudan must make sure that everybody will get a nationality - that nobody will become stateless because of this separation.

At the end of the day, I'm from Canada, and so there will never be a time when I'm suddenly not Canadian.

No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia.

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

Among the responsibilities of each citizen in a participatory democracy is keeping ourselves sufficiently informed so that we can participate effectively, argue our positions honorably, and hopefully, forge sufficient consensus to understand each other and then to govern.

One of the things that we're missing from our political dialogue right now is the idea that the United States is a home. It is more than an accounting sheet. It is more than the sum of its G.D.P., its total tax collections, or its total outlays. America is a family.

And in order for the Negro to fulfill his duty as a citizen it was often necessary that he fight for his self-affirmed right to fight.