“Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it.” WarStatesHoursUnitedUnited StatesShareCitizensCourtSupremeDistressFinestSupreme CourtJustifiedNavyAmerican CitizensRetrospectFinest HourInternment Author:William A. Rusher
“Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.” WayStatesCultureUnitedClassUnited StatesCitizensPopular CultureSecond Class Citizens Author:Geena Davis
“have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.” StatesAsksUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesCitizensToughAdministrationJournalistTough Questions Author:Josh Earnest
“If I had the choice now, I'd make New Jersey a state where you can have a shall issue on conceal and carry. Now our legislature won't do that, but I have done recently is to make sure that we're making it easier for folks to be able to get a permit in New Jersey because they deserve the right to do that as law-abiding citizens.” IfsStatesDoneAbleLawChoicesIssuesCitizensEasierDeserveFolksPermitJerseyAbidingLegislatureNew JerseyLaw Abiding Citizen Author:Chris Christie
“The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point, the state had really withdrawn from Lagos; the city was left to its own devices, both in terms of money and services. That, by definition, created an unbelievable proliferation of independent agency: each citizen needed to take, in any day, maybe 400 or 500 independent decisions on how to survive that extremely complex system.” LooksRealStatesHappensLeftTermDecisionCitiesNeededCitizensIndependentComplexesDefinitionsAgencyDevicesUnbelievableAbsentReal ThingsProliferationComplex Systems Author:Rem Koolhaas
“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'm not looking to be anyone's vice president. I looking to be the president of the United States. Or, I'll be a private citizen, there's nothing wrong with being a private citizen.” StatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesCitizensVicesVice President Author:Marco Rubio
“...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It is also irrefutable that those 31 states which have made conceal carry of handguns easy for law-abiding citizens have correspondingly enjoyed significant drops in their crime rates.” MadeStatesLawEasyCitiesCrimeHigherCitizensGunRateSignificantEnjoyedChicagoGun ControlAbidingHandgunsAmerican CitiesLaw Abiding CitizenCrime Rates Author:Kenneth W. Royce
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.” PeopleWorldHumansStatesProblemGivenNationsEnjoyUnderstandingPowerfulEffortEducationPovertyMillionsTechnologyRightsViolenceFailingInformationCommunicationRevolutionCitizensHealthyOrdinaryConsciousConsequenceToolsDestructionAbuseEnvironmentalHuman RightsAvailableAccessElitesCatastropheEducation SystemCoordinatesOrdinary CitizensAccess To InformationEscalatingEnvironmental Destruction Author:David Bornstein
“The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.” PeopleThinkingMenWellsStatesAnimalEnemyWorstHe ManCitizensIdealsSilentObedienceTyrantsBowsHerdsWorst Enemy Author:Claire Wolfe
“Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States. Many people have no idea what the relationship is between Puerto Rico and the United States. And certainly, I have been asked if we are citizens.” PeopleIfsThinkingHas BeensIdeasStatesUnitedUnited StatesCitizensNo IdeaPuerto RicoRico Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“The nature of the state is one thing, but there are other major challenges - what it will take to tackle the issues of social corruption, for example, social justice, and the economic system - and what are the future challenges when it comes to equality between the citizens, in particular in the field of the job market and equal opportunity for men and for women? This is at the centre of the question that is the Arab Awakening.” MenStatesJobsOpportunitySocialChallengesJusticeIssuesOne ThingEconomicExampleFieldsParticularCitizensEqualMajorsSocial JusticeCorruptionAwakeningCentreEconomic SystemsEqual Opportunity Author:Tariq Ramadan
“We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge resonance of the vision that Senator ["Bernie"] Sanders was putting forward.This has inspired millions of citizens - a style of campaign we've never seen before winning 22 states, extraordinary number of caucuses. Now the challenge is to bring the two halves of the party together.” TwoStatesTogetherWinningChallengesPartyNumbersHalfVisionMillionsStyleHugeCitizensAccountsClintonExtraordinaryInspiredCampaignsSecretarySenatorsResonanceCaucus Author:Jeff Merkley
“He's [Louis Brandais] so suspicious of bigness in government as well as business that he mistrusts even really top-down reforms at the state level. The most inspiring part of his legacy to me is his belief in the imperative and duty of self-education on behalf of citizens.” WellsSelfStatesGovernmentBeliefLevelsDutyCitizensReformLegacyBehalfImperativesSuspiciousSelf EducationMistrustTop DownMost Inspiring Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“It was not the United States who invaded Kuwait; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that went to war with Iran; it was Iraq. It was not the United States that fired chemical weapons at Iran; it was Iraq. And it was not the United States that murdered innocent Iraqi citizens with chemical weapons; it was Iraq.” WarStatesUnitedUnited StatesCitizensWeaponsIraqInnocentIranChemicalsChemical WeaponsKuwait Author:Colin Powell
“She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] rejected the [George] Bush administration's claim that it could indefinitely detain a United States citizen. She upheld the fundamental principle of judicial review over the exercise of government power.” StatesGovernmentJusticeUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesCitizensExerciseClaimsFundamentalsAdministrationReviewsRejectedJudicialFundamental PrinciplesSandra Day O ConnorJudicial Review Author:Patrick Leahy
“Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesTheoryCitizensAdministrationExecutivesAmerican Citizens Author:Dick Durbin
“Now it is firstly a matter of a clean divorce, because citizens and companies need legal certainty. Can there be a new partnership with the United Kingdom one day? All 27 Member States would have to agree to that. And the United Kingdom would first have to reflect on what it wants itself.” WantNeedsFirstsMatterStatesUnitedCompanyCitizensOne DayMembersAgreeCleanDivorceKingdomsCertaintyPartnershipUnited Kingdom Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“There cannot be a federal state of Europe without all citizens receiving the same benefits and rights.” StatesRightsCitizensBenefitsEuropeReceiving Author:Jaroslaw Kaczynski
“The Baltic republics have invented something totally new. Do you know what? They use the word 'non-citizens' for people who have been living for decades in the territory of Baltic states and have been deprived of a number of political rights. They cannot participate in the election campaigns; they have limited political and social rights. Everybody keeps quiet about it, as if this is the way it should be. Of course, this cannot but cause a certain reaction.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayShouldHas BeensStatesUsePoliticalCertainCoursesSocialCausesNumbersRightsCitizensQuietElectionDecadesCampaignsReactionsDo You KnowRepublicTerritoryDeprivedPolitical Rights Author:Vladimir Putin
“I believe that a country, Russia in this case, which can defend the honour and dignity of its citizens, protect their lives, and fulfill its international legal commitments under the peacekeeping mandate, will not find itself in isolation, no matter what our partners in Europe or the United States may think, expressing their bloc mentality.” ThinkingBelieveMayCountryMatterStatesI BelieveUnitedCasesUnited StatesCitizensProtectCommitmentEuropeDignityNo Matter WhatInternationalPartnersRussiaIsolationHonourMentalityMandatesPeacekeeping Author:Vladimir Putin
“In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.” IfsStatesUnitedUnited StatesCitizensTaxesBehaviorPropertyGood CitizenGood Behavior Author:Jesse Ventura
“The state should avoid all solicitude for the positive welfare of its citizens, and not proceed a step further than is necessary for their mutual security and their protection against foreign enemies. It should impose restrictions on freedom for no other purpose.” ShouldStatesPurposeLibertyStepsEnemySecurityCitizensProtectionWelfareMutualRestrictionSolicitude Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“Mexico has relied on television for decades to keep the citizens misinformed and in a constant state of stupor. I mean we live in a time where democracy is almost synonymous with oligarchy.” MeanStatesDemocracyTelevisionCitizensConstantDecadesMexicoOligarchy Author:Andrea Suarez Paz
“What the Supreme Court did in Citizens United is to say to these same billionaires and the corporations they control: 'You own and control the economy, you own Wall Street, you own the coal companies, you own the oil companies. Now, for a very small percentage of your wealth, we're going to give you the opportunity to own the United States Government.' This is the essence of what Citizens United is all about - and that's why it must be overturned.” GivingStatesGovernmentOpportunityWealthUnitedCompanyUnited StatesEconomyStreetsWallCitizensEssenceCourtOilSupremeCorporationsSupreme CourtCoalPercentagesBillionaireState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentOil CompaniesCitizens United Author:Bernie Sanders
“The United States has an absolute duty to attack terrorism where it lives and breeds, in order to prevent future attacks on American citizens around the world. The American people stand united in the face of terrorism. The men and women who undertook this mission deserve our praise and prayers.” PeopleMenWorldStatesFacesOrderPrayerUnitedUnited StatesHe ManDutyCitizensMen And WomenDeserveAbsolutesPraiseMissionsTerrorismAround The WorldAmerican Citizens Author:Dick Armey
“I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens.” ShouldFirstsStatesFeltPresidentUnitedClassUnited StatesProudCitizensChosenTreatedCandidatesFirst Class Author:Stevie Nicks
“Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written a lot about them. In fact, anybody who's worked through the declassified record can see very clearly that the reason for classification is very rarely to protect the state or the society from enemies. Most of the time it is to protect the state from its citizens, so they don't know what the government is doing.” KnowsLongStatesReasonFactsGovernmentEnemyTechnologyStudyRecordsWrittenRevolutionCitizensProtectInternalsDocumentsClassification Author:Noam Chomsky
“I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.” ThinkingStatesAsksDutyCitizensOrdinaryToughPatrioticSecretaryOrdinary CitizensTough Questions Author:Madeleine Albright
“Mr. [Donald] Trump, for five years, you perpetuated a false claim that the nation's first black president was not a natural-born citizen. You questioned his legitimacy. In the last couple of weeks, you acknowledged what most Americans have accepted for years: The president was born in the United States.” YearsFirstsStatesLastsNationsBlackPresidentBornNaturalUnitedUnited StatesFiveWeekTrumpCoupleCitizensClaimsAcceptedFive YearsLegitimacy Author:Lester Holt
“It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.” ThinkingStatesUnitedUnited StatesCitizensPainfulAfrican AmericanThese Days Author:Tim Kaine
“The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo.” NeedsChildrenStatesAmericaStrongUnitedUnited StatesCitizensExerciseProtectVulnerableUnited States Of America Author:Mike Pence
“The Pirate Party started in Sweden in 2006, and it only had one agenda: to change draconian copyright laws. But it's changed and shifted primarily because the questions of human rights and cyber have become much more relevant. So if you want to place it somewhere on the spectrum, I would say it's a party that has its roots in civilian rights. But we are not like many left parties that want to regulate citizens and create nanny states. We believe that regulation should be on the powerful, not the individuals.” IfsWantShouldBelieveHumansStatesLawIndividualLeftPowerfulPartyRightsChangedCitizensRootsHuman RightsAgendasRelevantRegulationCiviliansSpectrumPirateCopyrightSwedenCyberNanniesCopyright LawDraconian Author:Birgitta Jonsdottir
“Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life, or other values which they endorse or see as part of their historical continuity and identity. In this domain as in others values are not fixed, and so a state's interests are dynamic and in a constant state of negotiation and construction.” ThinkingWayStatesValuesTermInterestDemocracyIdentityParticularCitizensIdealsConstantHistoricalFixedConstructionNegotiationDomainPromotionContinuity Author:Dale Jamieson
“If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change, and a patchwork of jurisdictions that have not. These various policies reflect the politics of each jurisdiction and the values of its citizens.” IfsLooksStatesActionValuesNationsCitiesTakenPolicyCitizensClimateClimate ChangeVariousAggressiveProvincesJurisdictionPatchwork Author:Dale Jamieson
“In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking that night for the White Citizens Council in Yazoo City and they also have a State Charter that they may set up for "private schools." It is no secret.” MayStatesFactsSchoolNightWhiteSecretCitiesSawsHugeCitizensOne DaySenatorsCouncilCharterPrivate School Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“What's interesting is this election year has made the citizen groups off-limits. All these citizen groups? - local, state, national? - that really do things and improve the country, they're never asked to be in these electoral campaign discussions.” YearsMadeCountryStatesInterestingGroupsCitizensLimitsElectionCampaignsLocalsDiscussionElection Years Author:Ralph Nader
“Whenever I visit an industrialized nation that isn't the United States, it immediately becomes apparent how much more educated and informed and aware of international events their citizens are compared to Americans.” StatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesEventsCitizensInternationalEducated Author:Jim Goad
“Voters decided otherwise [on me as a president candidate] and I will focus on my work here in the Senate because I have nine months left. And after that, later, as a private citizen, I will continue looking for a way to contribute to the cause of political conservatism to help our state and our country and the issues that interest me. But I really don't want to be nor do I think that I will be invited to be any candidate's vice president.” ThinkingWayWantCountryStatesHelpingPoliticalLeftCausesPresidentInterestIssuesFocusMonthsCitizensDecidedVicesNineOur CountryCandidatesVotersSenateInvitedConservatismVice PresidentNine Months Author:Marco Rubio
“I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.” FeelsStatesIndividualDecisionDemocracyCitizensResponsibleDecision MakingOrganizational Author:Erich Fromm
“When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury. They're signing a contract that they are 18 years of age or older and they're citizens of the United States.” YearsStatesAgeUnitedUnited StatesCitizensVoteContractsPenaltiesRegisterSigningPerjury Author:Audie Cornish
“Over the years, the European Union and the United States have worked together to ensure peace and prosperity for our citizens and for people around the world.” PeopleWorldYearsStatesTogetherUnitedUnited StatesCitizensUnionsProsperityAround The WorldEuropean Union Author:Donald Tusk
“I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people of faith are uniformly opposed to stem-cell research is not documented by surveys. In fact, many people of strong religious conviction think this can be a morally supportable approach.” PeopleThinkingStatesFactsGovernmentSpeakStrongReligiousUnitedUnited StatesCitizensApproachResearchConvictionImpressionCellsBranchesExecutivesRepresentativesStemSurveysState GovernmentStem CellUnited States GovernmentStem Cell ResearchExecutive Branch Author:Richard Dawkins
“The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.” PeopleStatesFactsTodayUnitedUnited StatesInfluenceEconomicDevelopmentCitizensCivicsResidentsLending Author:Frank B. Kellogg
“Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldMayStatesUsedWonderWonderfulStudentsCitizensMembersResourcesCrisisInstitutionsLibraryUniversityPopulationCurrentsSpendingAround The WorldPrimariesBudgetsBoardsDigitalFacultyStaffAdministratorsTrusteesBoard MembersStaff Members Author:Tom Peters
“I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.” PeopleWantStatesProblemCitizensClaimsJewIsrael Author:Judith Butler
“Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.” StatesPresidentCitizensBarackSuperpower Author:Vaclav Havel
“I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of life who, in the last half of the 18th century and early 19th century, articulated the rights of colonists, secured independence from Great Britain, and established new constitutional republics at both the national and state levels. This definition includes a cast of thousands who played their patriotic part at the local, state, and/or national levels. Among them were citizen soldiers, elected representatives, polemicists, and patriot preachers.” TwoStatesLastsFatherTermWalksLevelsHalfRightsGenerationsCenturyCitizensIndependenceSoldierCastsDefinitionsLocalsBritainPatrioticRepublicPreacherRepresentativesFoundersPatriotFounding19th CenturyGreat BritainSecuredWalks Of Life18th CenturyColonists Author:Daniel L Dreisbach
“What's happened is that our government has been taken over by a secret government, which is associated with President Obama. And this has gone through one step and another. We've just gone through another step, which is actually, really mass murder, mass murder of citizens of the United States - the only term you can call it.” Has BeensStatesGovernmentPresidentTermUnitedSecretStepsUnited StatesGoneTakenHappenedCitizensMassMurderPresident Obama Author:Lyndon LaRouche
“Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their own, nor can they vindicate equal-protection rights of their citizens. The same is true about being able to challenge alleged religious discrimination. This limitation on the states' authority to champion such claims is fundamental to our separation-of-powers architecture.” WellsStatesAbleChallengesReligiousRightsCitizensEqualAuthorityClaimsFundamentalsCourtProtectionArchitectureSeparationSupremeDiscriminationLimitationChampionSupreme CourtPrecedentMinnesotaSeparation Of PowersEqual Protection Author:David B. Rivkin