Quotes About Citizens

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.

The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

If India breaks your heart with untold inequalities, it also surprises you with the unheralded achievements of its most humble citizens.

I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

Crime takes place in every country. But it becomes abuse when the state is unwilling and unable to protect the life and honour of its citizens.

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.

A Congress afraid of its own citizens is unworthy to lead the free world.

Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.

If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the purpose of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, we must first thoroughly reexamine and learn about each of them, and uphold America's founding documents by testing every political action in light of them.

There may sometimes be a mistake, but I think that the citizens of America who are sworn to uphold their duty in a jury setting are going to try to do their best to do that regardless of the consequences.

I expect each and every USDA employee to uphold their fellow Americans' First Amendment freedoms.

A functioning democracy cannot stand when its people do not trust their leaders to uphold the law.

The reality is there's a limit to how many people any country can bring in. And we as a country have a right to say we want to bring people based on their ability to contribute to our economy, to be safe, productive citizens, and to uplift the nation as a whole.

It takes a lot of time to write and put up a sketch show, but that's part of who I am. I don't think that ever goes away, that sensibility - especially coming from the Upright Citizens Brigade. That's just who I am.

We provide our citizens upward mobility through economic opportunity.

Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don't take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing up in suburbia. Home is where you eat, sleep, read, watch television and ignore your parents. It is not where you go to the ballet and then attend a heated panel discussion about it afterwards.

The Huashan project is a clear example of how an urban element, key to the successful growth of the city, can at the same time improve the quality of life for its citizens, thanks to an integration of all three bridges and the creation of boulevards on the banks of the canal.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.