Quotes About Citizenship

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

I'm a dual citizen in a way. I live in the States and have a green card, so my connection to British politics is almost nonexistent.

After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.

Mohammed Taheri-Azar, a naturalized U.S. citizen hailing from Iran, crashed his SUV into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006, injuring nine people.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.

We are not anti-immigration. We are against chain migration, except for the nuclear family. We want a merit-based system that is really based on economic needs.

Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.

In the U.S., those requesting a Green Card must take an oath that they will fulfill the rights and duties of citizenship.

Obama does not like the issue of where he was born.

Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

I think there is an obligation - not just a right, but an obligation - to vote.

I believe that we do our country a disservice when we make it harder for new American immigrants to abide by the rules of the road and obtain drivers licenses.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

As for my country, I don't live there, but obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

Imparai che la politica non è solo azione ma anche partecipazione. Forse, mi dissi, non si tratta di cambiare gli uomini quanto di accompagnarli, di essere uno di loro

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

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.

Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Qual es lo peor: Que soy pobre o que soy americano?