Quotes About Citizenship

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

if the people are to be our governors, they must arm themselves with knowledge.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply with the obtaining or retaining of power.

The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

Legal immigration is a process. You learn everything about the people coming in. You find out how many of 'em are prone to vote Republican. You don't ask 'em this; you just learn.

America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?

We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.

Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.

We need to fix our legal immigration system.

...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

I never had a country, never had the choice; I was born into one.

could become occasionally tyrannical, and that democratic liberty would falter if citizens ceased to be engaged. But he also had faith that a virtuous and engaged citizenry—grounded in small communities—could, through deliberation, achieve a good in common that they could not know alone.

Equal citizenship stature for men and women belongs in any fundamental instrument of government. It should be as basic to society as free speech and freedom of religion. And it is stated among basic rights in every post-1950 constitution in the world.