Quotes About Citizenship

Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.

There's no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ought to be all of our points of view.

I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia.

No matter that you're a British citizen, no matter that you were born here - your skin colour means you do not have the same rights as others to express critical opinions about your own country.

Americans want a nation-state: our own country with a history of freedom combined with responsibility.

The key here is that we're not going to beat them on commercials: They're always going to have more money than us. So what we have to try to do throughout is just ask people to make sure they vote.

If somebody is here illegally, and they commit a crime, chances are they're going to commit another one. So let's get rid of them.

A president must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.

If you ever, ever, ever want to complain about what's going on in the U.S., you should vote because then you have a right to. If you want to complain, you should vote.

I think I have lived enough in this country where I can say what I think is true and which is the voice of my conscience.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.'

I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

And when a few noncitizens vote, those can swing a close election.

For many years, when still a Yugoslav citizen, I was already a Swiss patriot, and in 1959, I obtained Swiss citizenship. However, I consider myself a world citizen, and I am very grateful to my adopted country that it allows me to be one.

There's Kenyan guys who last year or two years ago were running for Kenya, and then they switched to Qatar and Bahrain and other countries. Yes, I do have a problem with that.

When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.

Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.

I always consider myself Syrian. I just happen to be born in Canada.

I am here, a citizen of this country, and I'm saying, 'Hey, the system failed me. I am a good citizen. I contribute to this country, and here I am sharing my story. What are you going to do now?'

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.