Quotes About Citizens

Senators will also have been pleased to witness the declining importance of the people—

Direct taxation for Roman citizens living in Italy was abolished.

The main trouble with the Roman constitution was that it contained too many checks and balances, whether to restrain ambitious power-seekers or to protect ordinary citizens from the executive. It is somewhat surprising that anything was ever decided.

judiciary, it was simply not equipped to execute large numbers of its citizens. The task had to be privatized.

Rome became a republic in 509 B.C., after driving out its king and abolishing the monarchy. The next two centuries saw a long struggle for power between a group of noble families, patricians, and ordinary citizens, plebeians, who were excluded from public office. The outcome was a apparent victory for the people, but the old aristocracy, supplemented by rich pledeian nobles, still controlled the state. What looked in many ways like democracy was, in fact, an oligarcy modified by elections.

Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.

Civil society space provides the oxygen for citizens to participate and meaningfully hold their governments and the private sector to account - and ensure that decisions are made in the interest of the majority and not the few. Without it, citizens have limited space to dissent and challenge the elites.

There's huge opportunities to continue to improve efficiency in the way the government operates and improve the way government provides services to its citizens.

Governments need to be seriously sceptical about whether new coal provides a good deal for their citizens.

States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.

Individual actions are important because in any democracy, citizens need to feel agency. If you feel powerless, totally powerless, it's psychologically dangerous.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

Power is not just about the chair. The public is power.

An absence of credible information prevents citizens from participating in public decision-making, particularly on key issues of concern such as education, health, and governance.

Global governance needs recalibrating so it works in the public interest of all the world's citizens - not just for the few.

Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

It is this desire to see civil society remain a strong and united force within the U.K. that has encouraged me to chair Citizens U.K. Commission on Islam, Participation and Public Life.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Public opinion must be heard.

Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments are, at the end of the day, the only true legitimacy.

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.