Quotes About Citizenship

In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

Marines and soldiers don't issue themselves orders; they don't send themselves overseas. United States citizens elect the leaders who send us overseas.

It is clear that United States immigration policy is badly in need of reform.

A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state and of his city; for being loyal to his family and to his profession or trade; for being loyal to his college or his lodge.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'

I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.

It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.

For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States legally.

Any country is either becoming more democratic or less democratic. I think the United States hasn't tended to its journey toward democracy in a long time.

No one is born to be president of the United States of America.

As of today, if I am asked abroad if I am a free citizen of the United States of America, I must only say what is true: No.

I love the United States of America, and I know that we wouldn't be able to do all the things that we do as just everyday American citizens without our military, and all the things they've done past and present.

I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I do know this: that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American.

I love my country. I love the United States of America. I'd rather be here than any place else.

Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do that, it's very hard to hold us together as a country, because it's shared values that hold us together.

I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.

I'm glad I get to live in the United States of America.

When I stand up here, and I'm fighting for your rights and the rights of all people in these United States of America, I am a true patriot.

I've traveled the world, and I've seen how people marvel at the United States of America, at our democracy, at our ambition to build what so few countries have - a nation defined not by race or tribe or religion or place of birth but by an idea, that everyone is created equal.

What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens.