Quotes About Citizens

American citizens and communities should be free to choose where they would like to live and not be subject to federal neighborhood engineering at the behest of an overreaching federal government.

A nation that mistreats its own citizens is more likely to mistreat its neighbours.

I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.

In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

I'm still very interested in the things that happened in the '80s and the '70s because I think that they were very important years for Nigeria. In the '80s, we were under a military dictatorship for quite a while, and I think that the way we engage with our country as citizens was shaped in many ways by the events that took place in that time.

In this book we ask several questions about how we are being policed, including whether police are treating citizens fairly, with respect for their lives and Constitutional rights.

There are thirty-seven million people in the United States without any form of medical insurance. Every other leading industrial nation in the world—Germany, Italy, France, Japan, England, Canada, and all the others—supplies health care to all its citizens, at a fraction of what the world's richest country spends for inadequate health care. It's our national shame.

The simplest and most cost-effective plan was the "single-payer" system used by other leading nations, in which the government collected taxes and paid for the health care of all its citizens.

Trabajadores sumisos, consumidores expectantes y ciudadanos pasivos».

Trabajadores sumisos, consumidores expectantes y ciudadanos pasivos.

quién gobierna el mundo?, puede que queramos replantearla de esta forma: ¿qué principios y valores gobiernan el mundo? Esa pregunta debería ser la más importante en la mente de los ciudadanos de los países ricos y poderosos, que disfrutan de un inusual legado de libertad, privilegios y oportunidades gracias a las luchas de aquellos que lucharon por ello antes y que ahora se enfrentan a funestas opciones para responder a retos de gran importancia humana.

however, is that there is no alternative. Communist societies, social democracies, and even modest social welfare states like the United States have all failed, the neoliberals proclaim, and their citizens have accepted neoliberalism as the only feasible course.

But Soviet radio broadcasts accusing the Nazis of atrocities against Jews and Soviet citizens began almost immediately after the Germans invaded the USSR in the summer of 1941 and remained a major Soviet theme for the remainder of the war.

Citizens have very little choice in terms of influencing major decisions. The influence of social media, the funding of political parties and the lust to hold onto power weakens year by year the body of the democratic processes. Cynicism and disillusionment has become rampant in democratic countries. We live largely under the control of rich and powerful institutions and individuals.

The welfare of the people is the highest law

In homes and apartments, citizens would be forced to live like incarcerated prisoners, afraid to mingle with neighbors, friends, or even close relatives for fear of risking infection.

in for the evening. The town rose into view, the biggest Cora had seen since North Carolina, if not as long established. The long main street, with its two banks and the loud row of taverns, was enough to bring her back to the days of the dormitory. The town gave no indication of quieting for the night, shops open, citizens a-prowl on the wooden sidewalks. Boseman was adamant about not spending the night. If the

A state that is already economically so badly off that it relies on eliminating the relatively insignificant percentage of its incurable citizens in order to save on [resources] -such a state has already reached the end economically.

Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference.

The continued existence of freedom is based on educated citizens who understand their own history, government, economics, and God-given values. Every day we have to sort out information from propaganda, due to the fact that the media of this world are full of "journalists" with a cause.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it.

These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.