Quotes About Citizenship

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

Thank God for paper ballots.

If I ran for president, the first thing I'd do is legalize everyone who's been here paying taxes, working, paying taxes. Mothers and fathers of kids born in the U.S. should get a green card.

If I was prime minister for a day the first thing I would do would be to close the border. Then we could work out how many people we've got here. Then you get people out who have committed crimes and you look at others who shouldn't be here. Nobody knows how many people we've got here.

Looking at the history of our country, we have been and we are pro-immigrant, but we aren't going to be much of a country if we don't take care of our own people first and if we don't observe the rule of law.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.

College is supposed to be a place that prepares its students for the real world. That's the entire purpose of attending! Learning how to be an engaged citizen is something that should be encouraged in this kind of environment, not restricted.

Don't be afraid - if you don't exercise your rights, you will lose them.

Our political leaders have great responsibilities, but as with many situations in life, people often rise or fall to meet your expectations. Our responsibility as citizens is to expect our leaders to lead and to give them enough support so that they may do so.

And all officeholders, whether chosen by lot or elected, were held closely to account.

of member-states from enlisting in foreign armies.

[On slaves and their descendants:] They are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.

El desenlace dependerá de la amplitud de las reservas democráticas depositadas en la ciudadanía y en los partidos de oposición.

Nations have to be built on an inclusive identity.

Nationalism meant differentiating between the nation and the state, and it was clear that no government could take upon itself the rights of a nation.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

The answer that we question most Is one we've heard you say, "You owe it to your country, boy, It's the American Way

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.

Someone must stand up to those who say, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (On dismissing 12,000 striking air traffic controllers)

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Well, consider this Custer's payback." "Since my grandfather killed him," said Archille, "there is a certain justice to the idea. Still, Thomas here is a bona fide American citizen. I'm Canadian. My brother fought in the trenches. My uncle was at the Somme.