Quotes About Citizens

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

I would say that every political party must remain in some form in a state or the Centre for the sake of democracy.

The idea that growth will remedy our debts is so addictive for politicians, but the citizens end up paying the price.

By raising bread-and-butter issues, we remind the Government of the things that it may forget or ignore.

Until 1982, Canada Day was known as Dominion Day. I always thought that had more of a ring to it. Beyond the zippy alliteration, it reminded us citizens that our domain of orderly domesticity was graced by the dominant power of our 'Dominus.'

Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.

My job as Taoiseach, and the job of any government, of course, is to represent all people.

I am proud to be an American, proud to represent 600,000 Americans, and proud to be in the only party pledged to make the District of Columbia the 51st state.

A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation.

A major part of living in a representative form of government is giving citizens the right to choose and be treated equally.

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

People get Washington-ized a lot of times, being down there for awhile, and forget that we're called members of the House of Representatives because we're meant to represent people.

Those who serve in our armed forces do so from a profound sense of duty to secure liberty for their fellow Americans. They enlist to serve their fellow citizens who express their will through elected representatives, not an unaccountable defense establishment.

People approach politicians with lot of hopes, particularly if they are elected representatives.

In sports, I was representing my country, but in politics I represent people directly. I have always lived with a cause. In army, it was the existence of the sanctity of nation and the men I was commanding, and in sports, it was the pride of my country, while in politics, it is the rights of citizens I am fighting for.

A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.

If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

This country is a republic.

We the People' are the prime movers of the Republic.