Quotes About Citizenship

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

Part of what's great about America, and Canada as well, is that we can talk about our political leaders in public.

I honestly believe that we are Arizonans and Americans first, not merely advocates for our respective political parties.

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.

There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.

It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

I am committed to growing participation in the political process and doing it the right way.

I figured if you live in a country long enough, you want to be a part of the political process, and you sort of owe it to your hosts. They've accepted you. Why wouldn't you accept them?

Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

I'm really not a politician: I don't have a political background, though I've been an activist fighting for my community for years. So I had to learn a lot about my government.

We get the politicians we deserve and the environment we deserve.

I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. Right now, I just view myself as an American.

You should absolutely get involved, especially those local politics like school board seats. That's really where America happens.

Right to Information is a small concrete step in making our polity more democratic.

People should show up and vote at the polls, unless there's an extraordinary reason not to do so.

Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.

I'm English. I've never said the opposite. I'm 100 per cent English. In Portugal it happens that a lot of Brazilians play for Portugal and they're not Portuguese.

Political positions do not belong to the officeholder; they belong to the people that place us in office.

I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.

The Postal Service exists to serve every American, regardless of where you live or what you believe.

If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.