Quotes About Citizens

People want transparency in government.

People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes.

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

our greatest enemies are those who are without certainty. The ones with questions, the ones who regard our tidy answers with unquenchable scepticism. Those questions assail us, undermine us. They…agitate. Understand, these dangerous citizens understand that nothing is simple; their stance is the very opposite of naivety. They are humbled by the ambivalence to which they are witness, and they defy our simple, comforting assertions of clarity, of a black and white world.

Cities and governments are but the flowering head of a plant whose stalk is the commonalty, and it is the commonalty whose roots are within the earth, drawing the necessary sustenance that maintains the flower.

Americans put almost as much fossil fuel into our refrigerators as our cars. We're consuming about 400 gallons of oil per year per citizin -- about 17% of our nations energy use -- for agriculture.

A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive as the sensitive science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life. If, in our haste to "progress," the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America.

As Victorian-era prudishness set in, some upstanding citizens also took to putting coverlets over the instrument's legs out of an exaggerated sense of modesty.

In einem freien Staat müssen Zunge und Meinung frei sein.

This is the biggest difference between the world's two largest democracies: In India, the poor vote.

There was a feeling that voters should be repaid in booze for the effort of voting.

Trade, migration, and modern communications have given us networks of friends and associates in other countries. We owe them much, but the social contract with our fellow citizens at home brings unique rights and responsibilities that must sometimes take precedence, especially when they are as destitute as the world's poorest people.

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

History shows that societies where opportunity is safeguarded tend to be societies that are good international citizens.

My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.

A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society.