“Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.” ShouldChildrenCountryAmericaYoungGrowsGoalLosesGrowing UpSuccessfulViolenceCitizensHealthyHighestGunAdultsAbuseAddictionYoung AdultIllValuableEducatedSecureJailOur FutureGun ViolenceGood CitizenIll HealthSingle Child Author:John F. Kerry
“The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.” BusinessSuccessfulCitizensTrainingRegardObjectivesMaking MoneyPrecious GiftsGifts Of Life Author:Margaret Halsey
“I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.” TryingPersonsSuccessfulCitizensBeing SuccessfulJust BeingGoing OutAssociatesAmerican CitizensBeing Myself Author:Robert Griffin III
“They [Mc Donalds] take people and give them a first job, which enables them to get a second job. They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens and they're probably more successful than charter schools.” PeopleGivingFirstsSchoolJobsYoungSuccessfulCitizensVery GoodBe GoodGood JobCharterGood CitizenCharter Schools Author:Charlie Munger
“You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.” WantCulturePartyEconomySuccessfulCitizensPressesIsraelOpennessHostileFree Press Author:John Podhoretz
“In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.” YearsThreeSuccessfulProgressCitizensElectionIraqThree YearsImmenseThreatened Author:John Linder
“I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.” BelieveGovernmentI BelieveSuccessfulCitizensFortunePortionsHeirs Author:Bill Gates
“Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance.” MenImportantSelfCharacterQualitySuccessfulHonestyCitizensCallingPerseveranceIntellectSelf RelianceRelianceTruthfulnessGood Citizen Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations