“If citizens cannot trust that laws will be enforced in an evenhanded and honest fashion, they cannot be said to live under… — Dale Carpenter Copy Share Image
I think the research evidence on the benefits of early childhood programs for the local economy is extremely strong. However, the moral… — Timothy J. Bartik Copy Share Image
More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so… — Allen West Copy Share Image
America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
In countries where democracy is either non-existent or in development, on the other hand, citizens crave those freedoms. Maybe that is one… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A second key area where you are called to make a contribution is in showing concern for the environment. This is not… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
I want to say unequivocally that while I cherish every person who comes from anywhere, who comes here legally and seeks to… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
There are two things. There was the moral responsibility, and that, first, is creating an atmosphere where the security forces can kill… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is a world of extremes, which can be characterised most clearly in terms of exclusion. That means political exclusion, whereby the… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
The Muslim contribution to the future of America is to not only speak out as Muslims, but to also speak out as… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States. Many people have… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge,… — William Safire Copy Share Image
We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of… — Nicolae Ceausescu Copy Share Image
Done correctly, everyone from individual speakers to large organizations can inspire citizens and customers to spread a message using their own social… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
I think it's a part of being a citizen in a country, to know what is going on and to have a… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual... as a trustworthy… — Suzanna Hupp Copy Share Image
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
This election is a critical step in that overall plan - transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to… — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in… — Paul Cellucci Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity… — Brian Day Copy Share Image
There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education,… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
