Quotes About Citizenship

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

Let's be clear: a nationalist is not a patriot.

It is really your behaviour that determines whether you're a patriot.

I'm a patriot, but I'm also a European. I think the two go together.

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

There are millions and millions of patriotic Muslim Americans.

We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

God bless America. I am American. I'm very patriotic. I love this country.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

True patriotism is loving your country and countrymen enough to want to make it better.

God doesn't really have to have a concern for my patriotism, but I am an American, and we were blessed to be born in America.

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.

Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours.

We are absolutely going to make sure Paul Ryan is being held accountable to the people.

Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? They sell us out. They sell us down the river, and we pay for it.

I don't think it's a bad thing to say everybody pays $10 and if you go to vote you get your $10 back. And if you don't vote that money goes to support the election process.

We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM'ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale.

I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.

When you've lived in a country for 50 years and you pay your tax, you have a pension and insurance, you've raised a family and sent your kids to uni. To get to an age and be told you don't belong here and you have to go back to where you come from is really saddening and infuriating.

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

By requiring all 30 million Americans age 18 to 25 to perform two years of national service, in the military or civilian life, we will be asking for a shared sacrifice from all American citizens.