Quotes About Citizenship

becoming American is less a function of birth or blood and more a function of embracing a set of ideas."14

And math to me is just a training course to be a citizen, how to think in the world.

We're busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.

Secondo alcuni ci si trova di fronte a un "dilemma democratico" che si può enunciare in questo modo: più una entità/unità politica è piccola e dunque direttamente controllabile dai suoi cittadini, più sono ridotti i suoi ambiti di sovranità. [...] D'altra parte, più l'entità territoriale è estesa più si indeboliscono le opportunità di partecipazione dei cittadini.

India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal.

I stood in the line for US citizens, my blue passport in hand, once again aware of the strangeness of returning to my country as the citizen of another. The customs official, a man in his thirties

Maybe this is what it meant to be a citizen of a place—bonded to each other by the histories thrust upon us.

A democracy depends upon people getting brighter all the time. Democracies are delicate. They're not just ipso facto and just go on and on.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.

Over time, if you want rights, you have to also show that you can use them responsibly and that you can build a positive world in the online space, and that's also very important.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.

There should be a path to earned legal status for those that are here. Not - not amnesty - earned legal status, which means you pay a fine and do many things over an extended period of time.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.

Part of comprehensive immigration reform is not just the path to citizenship for undocumented workers, but also the ability for families to be together.

In extending citizenship to people who had no direct territorial connections with the city of Rome, they broke the link, which most people in the classical world took for granted, between citizenship and a single city. In a systematic way that was then unparalleled, they made it possible not just to become Roman but also to be a citizen of two places at once: one's home town and Rome.

She sometimes thought of herself as a sort of extraterritorial patriot: given a country, she would be proud, and given a uniform, she would serve. Instead, she was given Russia, which filled her heart with despair and her mind with the idea that life was not worth living.

The UK Home Office argued this was "in the public good" and that citizenship was "a privilege, not a right," even as it rendered these individuals stateless, leaving them without the recourse or oversight of any state's legal process or rules. As a security measure intended simply to block the return of European citizens who had fought in Syria, it worked. But it was an approach bound to fuel more conflict and more resentment.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.