Quotes About Citizenship

If money can buy a better house or car or even a yacht, that's one thing. But if it can buy citizenship, special access to public spaces, preferential treatment at colleges, and favors from politicians, it becomes a corrupting and corroding force.

All that I've done, thought or been is a series of submissions, either to a false self that I assumed belonged to me because I expressed myself through it to the outside, or to a weight of circumstances that I supposed was the air I breathed. In this moment of seeing, I suddenly find myself isolated, an exile where I'd always thought I was a citizen. At the heart of my thoughts I wasn't I.

I was a citizen. At the heart of my thoughts I wasn't I.

Her decision to do so – when she had a working majority in Parliament – was not pure vanity. It was the inevitable result of the völkisch rhetoric she had adopted when she told her first Tory Party conference as leader that 'if you believe you're a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere', openly evoking the far-right (and Stalinist) trope of 'rootless cosmopolitans' who did not deserve citizenship.

I really feel like we have drifted too far away from real America.

I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

Democracy fascinates me.

I mean, my dad is half-Armenian, his father is 100%, and I actually think he has Armenian citizenship. Apparently, the Kardashians and me are the big celebrities over in Armenia.

The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.

I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.

There's a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don't bother. And that's why it's not working.

I want to feel good about paying taxes.

As you watch 'Documented' on CNN, I ask you, my fellow Americans: What do you want to do with me? What do you want to do with us? How do you define American?

You commit a felony, it does not matter who you are, you could be deported.

Few people think about politics every day. But they are in the market every day.

Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that's what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.

I firmly believe the way forward for our nation is to have a robust democracy.

As a U.S. citizen, I cherish the First Amendment.

Well, first of all, I think that Russia has to have free democratic elections, that means everyone who wants to take part in it should be admitted.

If you've lived in England for five years, for me, it doesn't make you English.

If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.