Quotes About Citizenship

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

I absolutely believe that President Obama was born in the United States. I don't buy into the claims that he wasn't.

I didn't vote for President Obama, but I think he is our president, and I like and dislike decisions of any president in office.

Republicans insist that if you're going to run for political office, you have to be loyal to President Trump. This is wrong. This is not the America I want to live in. This is not the America I want my children to live in.

Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

Presidents are only seen on August 15 and January 26. Who knows what they do for five years other than this?

I do love my country. I don't think I'm particularly a good American. I don't know what makes a good American. Other than somebody who - I like people who let other people alone. I think that's a pretty good American. And I keep my hands to myself. So I'm an OK American.

There is a danger in democracy itself.

There can be a debate on the Citizenship Amendment Act, but why should we shelter someone who has come to India illegally from outside?

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

I have never concealed my dual citizenship. People involved in state business should probably declare their dual citizenship if they have it.

With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

The people are not defending political interests. They are defending the idea of living in a civilized country.

As somebody who has spent her entire adult life defending this country, I'd say defending our elections is a fundamental part of defending our democracy.

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

I will support a path to citizenship if it does not fall within the definition of amnesty, and we've got to define what amnesty is in this country.

People want government to deliver - here and now.

I also expected a lot from Modi, like every citizen. Talking is different; delivering is important.

You don't have a constitutional right or a moral right to demand entry into any country.

Our democracy... is only as good as the American people demand it should be.