“There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.” WorldWantTwoSelfHelpingTermMediaBalanceCitizensStrikesTwo ThingsShort TermBotheredGood Citizen Author:Eli Pariser
“Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.” WellsLongDoeImportantFactsFacesSocialTermChallengesSupportClearSecurityCitizensProgramWell BeingLong TermStabilitySeniorSocial SecurityCrystalsCornerstonesSenior Citizen Author:Bill Frist
“U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1911, couched its decision in these clear terms: 'Seven men and a corporate machine have conspired against their fellow citizens. For the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15th.” MenMayTermDecisionClearDangerousCitizensMachinesSafetyFellowsCourtSevenSupremeCorporateRepublicConspiracySupreme CourtNovemberDecree Author:Jim Marrs
“World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.” KnowsMenWorldFeelsPersonsLightAmericaTermNaturalCreativePrideCitizensUniversalIndiaEnglandCurrentsLocalsHappy LifeConsideringExpansionScopeLimitlessAllegianceHomelandPhilippinesWorld Citizen Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.” IfsStatesWisdomPoliticsIndividualTermEconomyEconomicConditionsCitizensMassPropertyLiberalismOver ItServitudeEconomic Freedom Book:The Crisis Of Civilization Source: The Crisis Of Civilization
“We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.” FeelsLongReasonActionPresidentTermJudgingCitizensConsequenceNegativeImpactCampaignsLong TermPresidencyComebackPublic Trust Author:David Greenberg
“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.” PeopleThinkingNeedsTermNiceAliveTaughtCommunicationCitizensStructureEducatedDominationNonviolent CommunicationDead People Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if the remainder do. And I think if they can learn something from us in terms of our system, and I think they have, they are learning more about how to unleash the potential of their citizenry to turn out more goods and services that their citizens want or that we want, I think that's terrific.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantMeanLongRunningTurnsEnjoyTermHalfMillionsThis WorldCitizensSixPropertyBe GoodBillionsGoodsLong RunsTerrificCitizenryGoods And ServicesLearning More Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.” Has BeensTermRightsBirthCitizensEqualProtectionDistinctionNativeEntitledPreciseAdoptedEqual RightsEqual Protection Author:James K. Polk
“We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. How clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... It is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek.” EnoughSocialEasyGoalTermPayMoralEnvironmentWillingCitizensCostTaxesPerfectionCleanEnvironmentalConsumersEnterpriseDedicationPollutionRhetoricTaxpayersEcologicalCleaners Author:Richard M. Nixon
“There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.” LongCountryPoliticalPoliticsNationsTermCitizensTraditionFarmsHonorableTerm Limits Book:Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Source: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
“People that had the guts to put their loyalty to the Constitution ahead of their loyalty to their political party were citizen legislators.” PeoplePoliticalPoliticsTermPartyCitizensConstitutionLoyaltyGutsPolitical PartiesLegislatorsTerm Limits Author:Tom Coburn
“All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman [sic] can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.” PersonsSaidStatesLawParentTermBornNaturalUnitedUnited StatesLandCitizensConstitutionStatementsGentlemanExceptionRepublicTouchingSovereigntyAdoptedProvisionAllegianceOwingCompliance Author:John Bingham
“The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn... War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression... All nations can coexist peacefully.” MenMeanLittlesWarCountryLawNationsGoalTermPayCitizensEqualTreatsImportanceAimProductionsPeacefulAdministrationMotiveLiberalismCooperationAggressionOwnershipFrontiersForeignersCoexistTribunals Author:Ludwig von Mises
“The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will become apparent to all of us that foreign interventionism is of no benefit to American citizens, but is instead a threat to our liberties.” LostDifficultTermLibertyCitizensCostBenefitsThreatDetermineTerrorismUnnecessaryExposureAmerican CitizensInterventionism Book:The Revolution: A Manifesto Source: The Revolution: A Manifesto
“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 firmly believe that the reputation of any country which is capable of defending the life and dignity of its citizens, and can conduct independent foreign policy will only improve in mid- and long-term perspective.” BelieveLongCountryTermPolicyPerspectiveCitizensCapableDignityIndependentReputationLong TermForeign Policy Author:Vladimir Putin
“If elected president I will have a litmus test in terms of my nominee to be a Supreme Court justice. And the nominee will say, we are going to overturn this disastrous decision on Citizens United because that decision is undermining American democracy. I do not believe that billionaires should be allowed to buy politicians.” IfsShouldBelievePresidentTermJusticeDecisionUnitedDemocracyCitizensPoliticianTestsCourtSupremeSupreme CourtBillionaireUnderminingAmerican DemocracySupreme Court JusticeCourt JusticeCitizens United Author:Bernie Sanders
“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
“I think it is right for Canadians to be asked to show their faces when they're taking the oath. On revocation of citizenship, we do not let people who have criminal records, including convictions for terrorism, become either permanent residents or citizens. I think there is a limit beyond which someone has really cashed in their chips in terms of their allegiance to Canada.” PeopleThinkingShowsFacesTermRecordsCitizensLimitsIncludingConvictionTerrorismCriminalsPermanentCanadaCitizenshipChipsAllegianceOathResidents Author:Chris Alexander
“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
“I have one of the strongest records in fighting for senior citizens. I led the effort to prevent cuts to Social Security. But I think for some seniors, they remember the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. They conflated the term "democratic socialism" with communism.” ThinkingRememberFightingEvilSocialTermEffortRecordsCuttingSecurityCitizensUnionsDemocraticSocialismCommunismEmpiresStrongestSovietSeniorSoviet UnionSocial SecuritySenior CitizenDemocratic Socialism Author:Bernie Sanders
“In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens at the base. In Cuba we call them blocks, the divisions of a city that is the term we use. Several blocks of neighborhoods that live in the same area gather in assemblies that are stipulated by law. In those assemblies the people choose freely among themselves who will represent them. The criteria takes into account the candidates characteristics, including if they are hardworking, If they are good people, if they have a clean past, and money has no bearing on who is nominated.” PeopleIfsFirstsStatesUsePastLawTermCitiesCitizensAreasAccountsElectionCleanMeetingsIncludingBlockCharacteristicsCandidatesNeighborhoodDivisionGood PeopleCriteriaCubaAssemblyHardworking Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading term. The use of it degrades the public discussion.” UseTermCommonResponsibilityDutyCitizensObligationConsumersDiscussionCommon GoodDegradeDegradingImplicit Author:James Howard Kunstler