Quotes About Citizenship

There will be no use of military forces in immigration. There will be no - repeat, no - mass deportations.

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'

In order to represent the state, you've got to be in the state.

People are so frustrated by electing people to represent them in Washington, D.C., and having them immediately forget about the Hoosiers they represent.

The American experiment with representative democracy has been a great success, but we need to realize that it needs to be a genuine representative democracy where ordinary people have a vote, have a voice in choosing the candidates who represent them.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.

The federal government should only be flying the flag that represents all people, the American flag.

The Knesset members - Jews and Arabs - don't represent the state of Israel. The government is the one that represents the state of Israel officially.

I've been left to wonder if it's the national Republican Party Scott Brown represents, or the people of Massachusetts? Let me add that I believe it's a fair question to ask of any of us, Republican or Democrat, who have the privilege of being sent to Washington.

A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

This is America, not a banana republic.

My parents didn't feel that they had any choice but to leave the Dominican Republic. They did, however, choose to become Americans, and they lived American values every day.

It certainly seems to me we would like to bring in the best and the brightest individuals here to participate in this republic.

In a healthy republic, there is a need for figures who understand that the presidency is not the be-all and end-all of the people.

Living in a republic demands a great deal of us.

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first.

One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.

Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.

I have to say, after hanging out with Republicans for four days, I want to take a look at my own birth certificate. I don't think I was born in this country.