Citizens Quotes · Page 52

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

— Aaron Swartz

Citizens United said that transparency would be the disinfectant, but (c)(4)'s are warm, wet, moist incubators. There is no disinfectant.

— Stephen Colbert

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

— William S. Burroughs

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you're a state and you don't set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits.

— Jonathan Gruber

There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.

— Grace Meng

The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before,…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

— Robert A. Heinlein

For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights…

— John Bonifaz

Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are…

— Mark Steyn

In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without…

— Thomas Jefferson

I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They…

— Paul Robeson

What you have is have equal rights, you don't have equal obligations. Not all Arab citizens have the same obligation, namely defending…

— Moshe Arens

The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function…

— Wendy McElroy

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the…

— Plato

Microsoft is in a court battle with the Department of Justice. The DOJ is saying, "We want information from your data center…

— Edward Snowden

An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague,…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

“The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because…

— Jose Saramago

However, after the assassination of Salman Taseer, the killer of Salman Taseer was welcomed by the religious fanatics. And they showered rose…

— Shahbaz Bhatti

Either we're removing a dictator who currently has plans to fund terrorism against American citizens or -- if Bush is completely wrong…

— Ann Coulter

I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that…

— Oscar Romero

When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful…

— Zicheng Hong

When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more…

— Hilaire Belloc

We will be fair, just, and compassionate to all, but our greatest compassion must be for our American citizens.

— Donald Trump

The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!

— Barbara Boxer

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens.

— Rush Limbaugh

The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen.

— Rush Limbaugh

Among the responsibilities, we will be ending the bleeding of jobs from our country and negotiating fair trade deals for our citizens.

— Donald Trump

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the…

— Edward Everett

I want a country where citizens like you and your family are just as welcome as anyone else.

— Hillary Clinton

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers…

— George Santayana

“If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common…

— Sunday Adelaja

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets,…

— William Shakespeare

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

— Anonymous

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

— Thomas Jefferson