The first lesson in civics is that efficient government…

We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines…

— Gordon Brown

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in…

— Alfred the Great

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

— Elon Musk

Civics isn't something where you learned - learn it for a couple weeks in high school; it is who we are. Americans defined themselves…

— Anthony Kennedy

Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to…

— Valerie Solanas

What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to…

— Henry Giroux

We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed…

— Colin Powell

I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that…

— Eli Broad

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving…

— George Will

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending…

— Mary McCarthy

In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects,…

— Jonathan Sacks

To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.

— Peter Calthorpe

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

— Michael Ignatieff