“To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.” IfsWellsWarCountryStatesProblemSeemsPoliticalFightingUnitedLeaderUnited StatesCitizensOffersSolutionsNobleWell BeingUndertakingsVigilanceEternal Vigilance Author:Walter Dean Myers
“Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.” PoliticalPoliticsFreedomDemocracyCitizensPoliticianVoteOfficialsVotingCitizenshipDemocracies HaveRight To VoteGood CitizenElection DayElected OfficialsWorld CitizenVoting And DemocracyPublic AffairsElections And VotingNot VotingGood CitizenshipFunny PoliticianPolitical JokesGood PoliticiansInspirational VotingVoting DayGood PoliticalBad PoliticsPoliticians Promises Author:George Jean Nathan
“The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.” PoliticalFoundLeaderCitizensSafetySoldierLegacySelflessnessPolitical LeadersPersonnelPublic Safety Author:Mike Pence
“I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.” StatesPoliticalAbilityUnitedClearCitizensCongressCampaignsCorporateAmendmentsFundingLegislaturePolitical CampaignState LegislaturesConstitutional AmendmentsCitizens United Author:Bernie Sanders
“Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.” MayPoliticalEvilPoliticsDemocracyIgnoranceCitizensEconomicsWeedMarijuanaDictatorDupes Author:William Beveridge
“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.” FunnyAmericaPoliticalFightingFreedomDemocracyStreetsCitizensOceanHumorousCrossesVoteElectionVotingCitizenshipElection DayVoting And DemocracyDemocracy In AmericaElections And VotingModern Warfare 2Political Jokes Author:Bill Vaughan
“The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.” GivingMadePoliticalLyingProcessVoiceUnitedCitizensPoliticianNewsResponsibleMade ItCorporationsRulingBad NewsCitizens United Author:Jesse Ventura
“In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.” MeanPoliticalPoliticsPleasureClassSacrificeCitizensSpendingIncomeMailLexicon Author:George Will
“Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.” ShouldCountryMatterPoliticalPoliticsPresidentCitizensMembersVoteWeightElectionCongressVotingCeoElections And VotingInspirational VotingVoting Day Author:Barbara Boxer
“The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).” ThinkingWayDoePlayPoliticalRolesFieldsCitizensIntellectualEvidenceIntelligentInstitutionsAnalysisAssumptionShakesConventionalFamiliarityFormationEvaluateHabitualMouldPolitical Will Author:Michel Foucault
“The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.” ImportantPoliticalHousePoliticsDemocracyCitizensOfficeVoting Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?” IfsThinkingWantBelievePersonsPoliticalReligionBeliefMoralCitizensSickClaimsTiredPreacherReligious RightsMoral Beliefs Author:Barry Goldwater
“One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.” GovernmentPoliticalFatherNationsPayHalfClearOne ThingCitizensTaxesFoundingIncome TaxTax Day Author:Ron Paul
“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.” WayShouldHumansMayCharacterGovernmentFormPoliticalValuesReligiousRacePrinciplesDemocracyEconomicCreationAdventureExpressionDutyDevelopmentCitizensLimitsPhilosophicalDetermineDoctrineArtisticHuman RaceAestheticLiteracyHistoricValidityArtistic ExpressionArtistic Creation Author:Richard P. Feynman
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.” TryingWarPoliticalPoliticsEnergyFreedomPartyLibertyDemocracyEconomicCitizensPoliticianSucceedProveVoteChiefsVotingAnti WarAntiwarPolitical PartiesDemocracies HaveRight To VoteVoting And DemocracyElections And VotingVoting DayMinority Report Author:H. L. Mencken
“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.” GivingCharacterPoliticalPoliticsChurchCourageVirtueHonestyDutyCitizensPoliticianIntegrityCapacityAffairConvictionObligationValidityBest Political Author:Albert Einstein