By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours,… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
We need early warning systems, technologies to deflect an asteroid - and we need political preparedness as well. It needs to be… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics,… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
We didn't have an indigenous Taliban before 2008. We didn't have a war in Swat before 2008, we didn't have a war… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
No system of criminal justice can, or should, survive if it comes to depend for its continued effectiveness on the citizens' abdication… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street. — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises. — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement. — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
After a war, the silencing of arms is not enough. Peace means respecting all rights. You can't respect one of them and… — Maria Julia Hernandez Copy Share Image
[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy -… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve… — Charlie Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Romania will always defend the Roma's right to move freely in Europe. They are European citizens and as long as there is… — Traian Basescu Copy Share Image
Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our… — Bob Taft Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction you'll have in this life as you grow old will be seeing your… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The humanities prepare students to be good citizens and help them understand a complicated, interlocking world. The humanities teach us critical thinking,… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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