Quotes About Citizens

I am sure that it is the Belarus people who are the masters in our state.

The American people expect their government to manage their hard-earned tax dollars responsibly.

The government has returned to the hands of the people.

People make a city, it's not the other way round.

We are a country based on the rule of law.

I have long believed that the first duty of government is to protect the safety of our citizens.

We are a no sales tax state. That applies across the board, to our citizens and those in other states. Period.

The overwhelming majority of Coloradans don't want Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States or Colorado.

We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

People need to be able to read what their rights are, to be able to participate and hold their governments to account.

I'm always trying to invite citizens to participate in the process of public decision-making.

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

America needs leader that work for them, not partisan gain.

The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.

It was publicly banned and burned by citizens, it was debated on national radio; but above all, it was read.

In a democracy, citizens have to be self-disciplined, or the country goes down, defeated from within by moral rot.

The assumption is that we need to protect politicians from outside influences. But how about protecting ourselves from the politicians?

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

right man to prepare the citizens of his country, who were facing disempowerment, for the benefits of the vita contemplativa. The transition to reflective existence was worth an error in reasoning: Cicero unhesitatingly created a lofty nimbus for the future Roman spectator by portraying Pythagoras making the many in the stadium into the few in study.

This council was called the boule and it was scarcely less cumbersome, consisting of 500 citizens, not elected but chosen by ballot, the point being that in this way it never developed a corporate identity which might have corrupted and distorted the business of the Assembly.

Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force on all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.