Home / Topics / Citizens Quotes

Citizens Quotes

Browse 3821 quotes about Citizens.

Citizens Quotes

“Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.”

Needs Important Social Community Security Citizens Workers Social Security Retired Disabled Hispanic Security Systems

Author:Grace Napolitano

“If enough citizens believe their national security’s in jeopardy then politicians who propose wars will receive the support they need.”

Ifs Needs Believe War Enough Support Security Citizens Politician National Security Propose Jeopardy

Author:James Morcan

“Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.”

Ifs Needs Should Wells Country Courses Responsibility Environment Focus Students Citizens Educated Civics Well Educated Proficiency Civic Responsibility

Author:George Nethercutt

“If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I'm sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they'll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I'm hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Years Two Helping Causes Willing Citizens Fellows Bounds Phones Generosity I've Learned Hopeful Phone Calls Dig Deep Donate

Author:Jerry Lewis

“As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs of our citizens, so I don't want to mess with a system that is working well for us.”

Want Needs Wells Done Jobs Citizens Concerned Excellence Mess Excellent Department Sheriffs

Author:Bill Smith

“The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.”

Needs Water Natural Practice Generations Citizens Resources Advantage Areas Forests Soil Wildlife Natural Resources This Generation Observant Inspirational Beauty

Author:Walt Disney

“Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.”

Thinking Needs Years Mean Long Government Certain Careers Citizens Politician Office Now And Then Skepticism Associates Sixteen Public Office

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens.”

Needs Feels Looks Desire Situation Citizens Fellows Intense Generosity Beneficial

Author:Antoni Tapies

“If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.”

Ifs Needs States Support Citizens South Korea Conveying South Korea Peninsulas

Author:Brian Reynolds Myers

“Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.”

“The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.”

Men Needs Virtue Citizens Good Man Good Citizen

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“The real need of the day is moral and spiritual rearmament. God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order and freedom, can rekindle true patriotism, can unite all citizens in the service of the nation, and all nations in the service of mankind.”

Needs Real Spiritual Political Spirit Order Nations Moral Mankind Citizens Reconcile Political Systems True Patriotism

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.”

Needs Should War Christian Together Citizens Threat Bombs Atoms Palestinian Referendums Atom Bomb

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.”

People Knows Needs Country Choices Girl Know How Wise Citizens Healthy Safe Aids Obligation Educate Literacy Wise Choices

Author:Laura Bush

“Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.”

Needs States Nations Land Security Citizens Demand Authority Israel Capability Sovereign National Security Historic Transfers Gaza

Author:Menachem Begin

“If you, the citizen, deliberately vote for someone who won't give you healthcare over someone who will, you need to have your head examined. Except you can't afford to have your head examined.”

Ifs Needs Giving Citizens Vote Healthcare

Author:Bill Maher

“America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government .”

Source: Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

“I would just say it's not good for the country to have 11 million people here who we don't know who they are, where they're living. They're not paying taxes, but they're showing up in emergency rooms. They're driving up the cost of auto insurance 'cause they don't have driver's licenses and are getting into accidents. They're having children, which are US citizens. So, I mean, it's an issue that needs to be dealt with.”

“The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief.”

“To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.”

Needs Desire Social Citizens Capitalism Conviction Ignorant Alternatives Renunciation Good Citizen Unforgivable Anti Social

Author:Ivan Illich

“The people of Central America - and, in a broader sense, the entire developing world - need to know first-hand that freedom and opportunity are not just for the elite, but the birthright of every citizen; that property is not just something enjoyed by a few, but can be owned by any individual who works hard and makes correct decisions.”

People Knows World Needs Firsts Hard Hands America Opportunity Politics Individual Decision Economy Hard Work Citizens Property Enjoyed Developing Liberalism Elites Birthright Central America

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.”

Needs Children Grows Quality Citizens Providing Prosperous Select Education System Quality Education

Author:Marc Veasey

“When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a promise to never leave behind their dead. In this country, as citizen soldiers, we need to make the commitment to each other that we will never leave our veterans behind.”

Needs Country Behinds Citizens Promise Commitment Soldier Vietnam Veteran Marine Our Veterans

Author:John F. Kerry

“We all know that election reform takes time. That's because those who have benefited from the system are the ones who fight hardest to preserve it. So if we're going to succeed, we need an independent coalition of citizens who believe in reform, who believe that our election laws should treat every voter equally, who believe that low levels of competition and participation are not healthy for democracy. The Independence Party is helping to build that coalition and I am happy to join you in doing so.”

“The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves.”

People Needs Children Care Culture Business Attention Groups Position Citizens Deserve Responsible Take Care Assumption Urges Being Responsible

Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well. It is not enough to have freedom of the Press and parliamentary institutions. Our difficulties are due partly to our own stupidity, partly to the exploitation of that stupidity, and partly to our own prejudices and personal desires.”

Thinking Needs Wells Enough Desire Democracy Citizens Difficulty Prejudice Institutions Presses Stupidity Dues Exploitation Urgent Freedom Of The Press Parliamentary Personal Desire

Author:Susan Stebbing

“France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right of every citizen. No Frenchman need ever fear that catastrophic illness will wipe him out financially. How long, do you suppose, will it take us, in the United States, to catch up?”

Needs Long Country States Care United Principles United States Citizens Western Illness Accepted France Health Care Wipe Comprehensive Frenchmen

Author:Suzanne Massie

“We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.”

Needs Planets Citizens Productive Our Planet Elise

Author:Kimberly Elise

“I am a citizen of the Soviet Union and I think sharp measures need to be taken against anti-Soviet forces that are trying to make their way into the leadership. In addition, it is vitally important to maintain the lines of communication with Germany through Poland.”

Thinking Way Needs Trying Important Force Lines Taken Communication Citizens Unions Germany Soviet Soviet Union Poland Lines Of Communication

Author:Konstantin Rokossovsky

“We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.”

People Thinking Needs Term Nice Alive Taught Communication Citizens Structure Educated Domination Nonviolent Communication Dead People

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.”

Needs Firsts May Two Class Duty Citizens Mass Foundation Pursuit Grades Divided

Book:Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

Source: Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

“Sometimes just being on a beach with my loved ones is all the adventure I need. I am a happy camper and continue to be a citizen of the world. I have yet to discover other cultures, other peoples dreams and treasures. I will always be a traveler who is discovering beautiful Gaia.”

World Needs Sometimes Dream Beautiful Culture Adventure Citizens Treasure Beach Loved Ones Discovering Just Being Traveler Other Cultures Gaia Campers

Author:Guy Laliberte

“For us, my wife and I and all of my partners believe that corporations have to be corporate citizens, and individuals who benefit from them, or who have built them, need to give back.”

Needs Giving Believe Individual Wife Citizens Benefits Built My Wife Partners Corporate Corporations Giving Back

Author:Mark Walter

“Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn’t fit this description.”

People Want Needs Helping Government Special Citizens Fit Waste Description Disability Fraud Helping People Elderly Good Citizen Basic Needs Special Needs People With Disabilities

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.”

People Needs Different Country Citizens Fairs Gender Ethnicity

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everythingin every possible way. The reason for ensuring that that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and goodmen, need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we do need to remember that it is necessary.”

Way Want Needs Littles Reason Remember Literature Voice Rooms Talking Reader Citizens Please Absolutes Sacred Privileged Arena Secrecy Unimportant Absolute Freedom Goodman

Author:Salman Rushdie

“We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens.”

People Needs Persons Country School Identity Citizens Scholar Business Person Future Business

Author:Benjamin Jealous

“We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.”

“A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like.”

“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Mean Country Journey Land Citizens Agree Trade Convinced Odd Plato Reminders Reminding Sculptors Bakers Free Country

Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.”

Needs Mean Culture Nations Responsibility Democracy Greater Internet Citizens Critical Collectives Free Speech Cusp Collective Responsibility

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn.”

“If Cuba wants normal relations, there's certain things they need to do like become a normal country that respects the rights of their citizens.”

Ifs Want Needs Country Certain Rights Citizens Normal Relation Cuba

Author:Marco Rubio

“What you have is have equal rights, you don't have equal obligations. Not all Arab citizens have the same obligation, namely defending the country. That's important and it needs to be corrected. Part of the integration is also taking it on themselves the burden, if you will, or the obligation to defend their country.”

Ifs Needs Important Country Rights Citizens Equal Burden Obligation Integration Equal Rights

Author:Moshe Arens

“Government systems suffer from two weaknesses. They are complex. And they are slow. We need to change this. Our systems need to be made sharp, effective, fast and flexible. This requires simplification of processes and having trust in citizens. This needs a Policy Driven State.”

Needs Made Two States Government Suffering Process Policy Citizens Weakness India Complexes Driven Flexible Governance Need A Change Simplification

Author:Narendra Modi

“Islamic terrorists are the greatest security threats to the United States, both domestically and abroad. We need to be vigilant every day. Now, every citizen has to be vigilant because they are vital links in the national security chain.”

Needs States United United States Security Citizens Threat Terrorist Chains Islamic Links National Security Vigilant

Author:Ralph Abraham

“We speak for all citizens of the Commonwealth when we say that society can draw great hope for the future because of the example which these young people are giving by their creative and constructive responses to the challenges which confront our communities and dedication to help those most in need.”

People Needs Giving Helping Young Speak Community Challenges Creative Example Citizens Draws Response Dedication Constructive Our Community Commonwealth Hope For The Future Great Hope

Author:William Weld

“And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.”

Needs Country Problem Past Rights Citizens Lessons Civil Rights Eras Patriotic Heritage Organize

Author:Taylor Branch

“Most of the mosques were built in our cities in recent years because Turkish citizens in those neighborhoods feel a growing need for places to pray.”

Needs Feels Years Cities Growing Praying Citizens Built Neighborhood Turkish Mosques

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I'm telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen, when you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you're a pleasant person to be around. "Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need? Oh, that's over in aisle seven. I'll come help you as soon as," that's the stuff. Find something. It could be planting flowers, especially if you can watch it.”

Ifs Needs Feels Persons Helping Light Eye Mother Father Stuff Watches Morning Flower Citizens Husband Seven Neighbor Pleasant Aisle Light In Your Eyes

Author:Al Jarreau