Quotes About Citizenship

What right does she have to weigh in when she doesn't even live here anymore?

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

I love my country, not my government.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

the vast majority of people have a feeling that there is almost nothing in which they can really, concretely and not abstractly influence and participate in the affairs of society.

The idea of the responsible and well informed citizen who participates in the important decisions of the community is the central concept of democracy. But due to the quantitative increase in population and to the influence of methods of mass suggestion, the substance of democracy is weakening.

State and home country, there's a difference

Nationalism is primarily a political principle, which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent.

That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.

Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.

As my father is British, I am seriously considering renouncing my American citizenship.

If exercising the right to vote were truly effective, the government would not be so eager to promote it.

On Election Day, we select our representatives by secret ballot, and we choose our candidates based on their ability to protect our individual rights, not the rights of the group of people with which we most closely identify.

Legislators redistrict all the time to achieve desired results. They group people together based on how they think they will vote. There is something fundamentally wrong with this tactic; it is unconstitutional, it is manipulative, it is patronizing, and it infringes upon all citizens' right to vote.

Cuando alguien me comunica que es apolítico, siempre pregunto en qué política concreta está pensando.

But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!

The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

What if we move to a path to legalization? How do we reconcile that with justice and fairness with those that come here legally?

Rising leftists openly call for open borders and seek to erase the distinction between citizens and non-citizens. I tell you what, if you erase our borders, you erase our country.

I'm not in favor of any amnesty whatsoever.

It's not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don't know anybody, to leave a place where you've had opportunities to build friendships from childhood. That's quite a big decision to make.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.