Quotes About Citizenship

From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.

Democracy is only as strong as our commitment to it, and we can't let our guard down in the face of threats to it, whether at home and abroad.

President Bush said that if illegal immigrants want citizenship, they'd have to do three things: pay taxes, hold meaningful jobs, and learn English. Bush doesn't meet those qualifications.

We want to find a permanent solution to the DACA population, not a continual three-year renewal period.

Being nimble and ready to change our minds if need be is an attribute that is crucial to live and thrive in a society that is powered by science and technology, both as an individual and as an engaged citizen.

Throughout our history, Canada's immigration policy has brought people here who had a pathway to citizenship. They were - and are - nation builders. It has been supported by political parties of all stripes and promoted by successive governments over generations.

I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned.

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.

Citizenship must be precious, not handed out like candy in a parade. We don't ride along and throw out citizenship like you do M&M's or Tootsie Rolls or whatever it is we're tossing out in our parades.

Throwing open our borders to everyone who wants to enter is impractical and could cause grave harm to our nation and the American people.

India is not Dharamshala. People coming from Bangladesh and Pakistan should be thrown out. India had not taken the contract of humanity.

Pakistani and Bangaladeshi infiltrators should be thrown out from the country, and there shouldn't be any compromise on the issue.

To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.

Elected office was never intended to become its own industry; it was to be filled with common men who, by way of still having jobs and families back home, maintained the connection to the problems of average, everyday people and thus could better serve.

Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items.

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

I cittadini sono gli eredi e i proprietari del patrimonio culturale, tanto nel suo valore monetario che nel suo valore simbolico e metaforico, come incarnazione della comunità di vita e della sua memoria storica, come segno di appartenenza, come figura della cittadinanza e dell'identità del Paese. È in questo senso che il patrimonio culturale, sulla scia di una storia plurisecolare, ha assunto, in Italia prima che altrove, una notevolissima funzione civile. Può averla ancora.

Noi, che vediamo le nostre città dilagare e dissolversi in anonime periferie-sprawl, e sappiamo che in quell'ambiente senz'anima cresceranno milioni di cittadini, nessuno dei quali saprà davvero che cosa è (meglio: che cosa fu) il paesaggio italiano fino a ieri celebrato. Siamo, ci sentiamo fuori luogo. Siamo spaesati, in senso sia metaforico che letterale.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Throughout the years, the nation of Canada, as we are aware, became a land of immigration, a home to millions of people from different lands, ethnicities, cultures and religious beliefs. Every new comer that has settled in Canada in the last few hundred years and those who will settle in the future share one common name: "immigrants."

While not everyone can be expected to be an 'expert' in all matters of governance, we know that any of us might one day be called upon to serve on the People's Council,

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.