Quotes About Citizenship

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

I don't know whether other people should or shouldn't pay taxes. I know I can, and I am willing, to pay more taxes. I know I should not get Social Security. I don't need it.

I believe that the decisions which govern all our lives, the laws we must all obey, and the taxes we must all pay should be decided by people we choose and who we can throw out if we want change.

I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.

When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.

I had applied to become French - or, rather, Franco-American, as I'm now a dual citizen - partly because I could: I'd lived and paid taxes here for long enough.

Donald Trump has a very radical idea, and that's that when we make changes to our immigration laws, the group we should be most concerned about are everyday, hardworking Americans, the citizens who make this country run, who obey the laws, follow the rules, pay their taxes, show up and vote - the people who are loyal to this country.

I fought for the U.S. government. I live in New York. I pay taxes in America.

Why shouldn't 16-year-olds who pay taxes and drive not be allowed to vote?

I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.

How about 'anvil babies' - because that is what anchor babies are around the necks of the American taxpayer.

I have bought my flat myself and never charged a penny of it to the taxpayers.

I'm disappointed in Burger King's decision to renounce their American citizenship. I call on companies currently mulling this tax dodge to reconsider and on Congress to protect U.S. taxpayers from more of these schemes.

The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives.

I came without my consent into this perverse world; since I am here, I am a citizen of the universe; I am a cosmopolitan, like Diogenes, I embrace with my love the entire human race. All mortals together, yellow, black, and white are everywhere my neighbours, are everywhere my relatives.]

We can help restore the common good by striving for it and showing others it's worth the effort.

Two years of required public service would give young people an opportunity to learn civic responsibility by serving the common good directly. It should be a duty of citizenship. This is how we once regarded military service.

America's original sin was not the exclusion of people born outside the nation's borders from citizenship. It was the exclusion of many people who had lived here even before the start of the Republic—in particular, Native Americans and African Americans. For most of its existence, America found it relatively easy to assimilate foreigners, although there were periods of sharp and even violent tension.

What we have lost, I think, is a sense of our connectedness to each other and to our ideals—the America that John F. Kennedy asked that we contribute to.

Citizenship entails more than voting on election days. It requires ongoing engagement—knowing what needs to be done, getting the facts and understanding the arguments, and then making enough of a ruckus, and organizing and mobilizing others to join you, to do what needs to be done.