Quotes About Citizens

I think most Americans understand that we deserve to have universal health care, as enjoyed by most citizens in most developed countries.

For too long, Big-Tech has abused its powers and targeted the constitutional rights of American citizens.

My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.

The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.

Accordingly, it is our task to ensure that the Government formulates policies that foster the continued development of the IT sector while also providing for citizens' access to technology and opportunity for economic advancement.

It's time to roll back superfluous governmental regulations and limit government to its sole task: safeguarding the rights of its citizens.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs for government.

Republicans think tax filing should be easier for you, not just the well-connected.

It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.

I know I've got to pay some tax, but I hate the fact that they collect millions of pounds a day from the congestion charge and I don't see anything or anyone benefitting from it. Where are the new hospitals?

People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested in is how their hard-earned tax money is spent.

To me, greatness does not mean mortgaging the future of our middle class by giving tax cuts to our wealthiest citizens.

A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

The citizens of Puerto Rico pay taxes with no representation every day, because Puerto Rico is not a state. And the rules only became more confusing the more I looked into them during my time there.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

I just simply can't support having my constituents pay more taxes and not receive more benefits for their tax payments.

I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't going just to export war. If it was actually going to help the people of the United States, I would gladly pay more.

We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.

The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote their love and loyalty to their country, and in exchange, the nation commits to preserve and protect and serve their interests, safeguard their freedom, and return to them in kind their first allegiance and loyalty.

Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?

Provision of facilities to the masses is linked with the collection of taxes.