Quotes About Citizens

A Republic is its people.

In democratic republics such as ours, citizens rely on public criticism of ideas and people to determine national policy.

An informed electorate is foundational to the future of this Republic.

People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

I operate on the assumption that as a member of Congress, presently, I represent everybody - Republicans, Democrats, independents and, yes, some people who don't care to participate.

You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you're supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well.

If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and one in five was black - some were free, some slaves.

We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?

Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.

Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy.

The relationship between citizens and government is increasingly mediated through the Internet.

There are a lot of rules in cities that were designed to protect a particular incumbent, but not to move a city's constituents, a city's citizens, and the city itself, forward. And that's a problem.

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.

There is no greater threat to a free and democratic nation than a government that fails to protect its citizen's freedom and liberty as aggressively as it pursues justice.

One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.

Das Volk hat das Vertrauen der Regierung verscherzt.Wäre es da nicht doch einfacher,die Regierung löste das Volk auf und wählte ein anderes?

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