“If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.” IfsShouldStatesKidsNew YorkCitizensBest Education Author:Carl Paladino
“When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.” WayKidsFilmClassCitizensOverwhelmedSecond Class Citizens Author:Brit Marling
“I want my kids to grow up to be a useful citizen.” WantKidsGrowsGrowing UpCitizens Author:Cheech Marin
“When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansHelpingCareKidsMy OwnHuman BeingsCompanyMillionsCenturyCitizensSixHundredAdultsDollarsBillionsHelping OthersObligationSmokeSmokingI CareConvincingMillion DollarsTobacco Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it wouldn't be tolerated today, and that's quite right in my book... people look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful, white male.” PeopleIfsMenLooksBookHardFactsHomeKidsTodayWhitePowerfulClassRolesRichWifeCitizensMalesNostalgiaTreatedThickVeils1960sFacts Of LifeSubservientRaritySecond Class CitizensRoost Author:Jon Hamm
“The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around Satan Smiting. Treason? Oh, of course not. They were on a religious pilgrimage and got lost. Happens all the time. I knew a kid who went to Lutheran Bible Camp and turned up six years later in a Christian Identity compound with a shaved head and a Hitler mustache.” YearsHappensKidsChristianCoursesFoundLostReligiousIdentityBrokenCitizensSixTrainingCellsSatanAlsCampsAfghanistanCompoundsTreasonPilgrimageMustacheBuffaloBroken UpLutheransShaved Head Author:James Lileks
“I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because in order to fit in and to be accepted and to be a citizen in Israel, you need a Jewish mother. So basically what I'm trying to tell my kids is just, it's their mother's fault and it's not my fault.” NeedsTryingStatesKidsLyingMotherOrderCitizensFitEqualFaultsIsraelAcceptedJewish Mother Author:Sayed Kashua
“I had to call in because I do believe, I know of cases, it is happening that some of these kids that weren't born here but they've lived here all their lives, they are being deported. And I also know of cases where the kids are born here, they're American citizens, they're put in foster homes and their parents are deported, and their parents are begging to get their kids back. That actually is happening.” KnowsBelieveHomeKidsParentBornCasesCitizensHappeningsBeggingAmerican Citizens Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I started off as a young lawyer working against discrimination against African-American children in schools and in the criminal justice system. I worked to make sure that kids with disabilities could get a public education, something that I care very much about. I have worked with Latinos - one of my first jobs in politics was down in south Texas registering Latino citizens to be able to vote. So I have a deep devotion to making sure that an every American feels like he or she has a place in our country.” FeelsFirstsChildrenCountryCareKidsAbleSchoolJobsYoungJusticeCitizensVoteSouthCriminalsLawyerDiscriminationDevotionOur CountryAfrican AmericanTexasDisabilityI CareLatinoJustice SystemCriminal JusticePublic EducationCriminal Justice System Author:Hillary Clinton
“Dr. Ben Carson is a first-class human being and citizen. He is exactly the kind of person that you could trust running any government institution. You would trust him to babysit your kids. He's just an admirable human being.” FirstsHumansKindPersonsGovernmentRunningKidsHuman BeingsClassCitizensInstitutionsDrsAdmirableFirst ClassBen Carson Author:Rush Limbaugh