Quotes About Citizenship

When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems.

I'm a Canadian citizen, but I do have a green card.

I have the travel documents. I have a green card. I can go anywhere.

Everyone that've been here, working, living as Americans - just give them a green card.

There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown up here in the United States. They're Americans.

By God, no matter what Republicans say, the people of this country really do care about each other. We are not a cold people. By God, when John F. Kennedy said, "Ask what you can do for your country," he spoke to this country's heart and conscience.

And you never felt like becoming an American? She didn't know why she was pressing him on this one point. That's for people without options, Ed said. Sorry, I mean... He trailed off. No, I get it. Nation in free fall.

What is taxation? Taxation is what you pay to live in a civilized society- what you pay to have democracy and opportunity.

From the beginning, the United States has been based on a nurturant principle: • Citizens care about other citizens and work, through their government, to provide public resources for all. Those

At issue is what freedom is supposed to mean, what democracy is supposed to mean, and what personhood is supposed to be.

Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

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

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

My parents instilled a lot of American values in me. They encouraged me to work hard and told me that anything was possible for me because I was a citizen.

If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country.

No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country. At the same time, that does not mean we just flat out open our borders. We can't do that.

Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.

The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.

Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.

A lot of us were worried that the secular fabric of the country was under threat and it was time that citizens begin to speak out. Hence we called ourselves Citizen Speak India.

People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.

It will be wrong of us to approach our grievances by threatening to disobey the laws or by threatening the integrity of our nation.