Quotes About Citizenship

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Our citizens must feel they are part and parcel of this country. This is essential.

I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.

I believe that everyone should participate in democracy and enjoy doing it.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

No group of our citizens can be denied the right to participate in the opportunities of first-class citizenship.

I wanted to participate in the political responsibilities of an American citizen. I wanted to vote. I wanted to be a full member of the American community. I made America my home country. It's my identity in many ways.

We should be creative, and we should accommodate the needs of every community to open up the democratic process. We should make it easy and accessible for every citizen to participate.

Democracy is something you have to participate in.

We need to encourage people to speak up, to speak out, because the more people who participate in our democracy, the more our democracy grows.

Democracy is stronger, is better, is more robust when people participate. We should want to encourage that.

In schools, churches and local communities, Americans are participating in their democracy by getting others to as well.

There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

Our democracy relies on participation, and we've never done better by excluding folks.

Being in Australia makes me happy. My partner is Australian, and my home is in Australia, and it's ridiculous not to be Australian - it's a logical step to take.

I have nothing against Indian Muslims but there are certain 'mohallas' in different parts of the State which have become the hub of illegal immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh, which need to be cleaned.

He serves his party best who serves his country best.

Congress is hiding the details of their party president Rahul Gandhi's citizenship. Rahul Gandhi's real name is Rahul Vincy. They are cheating people by hiding the real names of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

Si ya no dependen tantas cosas de la política, entonces es lógico esperar que se debilite no solo la voluntad de votar sino también el compromiso de los que siguen participando. Las opciones probablemente serán más volubles y más susceptibles de basarse en factores cortoplacistas. En la práctica esto también significa que los resultados electorales serán cada vez menos predecibles.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Soon after their marriage, Julian got a job as a laborer in a Juarez clothing factory. Mercedes continued working in El Paso as a domestic. The poverty and crime in Juarez in the 1940s was extreme and Mercedes was unhappy living there. Because she'd been born in the States, she could, if she chose, live in El Paso. Julian was not an American citizen and could not move to El Paso until he was approved by the U.S. government.