Citizens Quotes · Page 96

So who's the big red menace nowadays? Cuba. That's it? I'm sorry, but it's hard to whip up any us against them…

— Dennis Miller

As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20% of the time, than a President Clinton…

— Newt Gingrich

“That’s why you never hear politicians talking about ‘citizens,’ it’s all ‘taxpayers,’ as though the salient fact of your relationship to the…

— Cory Doctorow

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an…

— Carl Paladino

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with…

— William Safire

Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the…

— Emile M. Cioran

The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or…

— Samuel Adams

Real change begins with citizens registering to vote, becoming active and engaged in their communities, and casting their ballot at every election…

— Nina Turner

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance…

— Michelle Alexander

Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society…

— Noam Chomsky

As Americans, we have a long history with firearms. We also have a government built on compromise, so here is the compromise…

— Nick Symmonds

Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it…

— Strobe Talbott

When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone…

— Frederic Bastiat

Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse…

— Deborah Lupton

To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders…

— John Adams

[Persons] who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union [have] the right to enter every other state, whenever…

— Jack Kevorkian

Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their…

— Thomas Jefferson

Schools exist in America and have always existed to train responsible citizens of the United States of America. If they don't do…

— Rudy Giuliani

Gun control has proved to be a grievous failure, a means of disarming honest citizens without limiting firepower available to those who…

— Doug Bandow

Contrary to Eastern Europe, where the border was more porous and you could exchange information more easily, Cuba is an island. Thus,…

— Luis Fortuno

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying…

— John Rawls

[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in…

— Albert Einstein

Now, how do you explain Obama's claim, that he can kill American citizens without due process? Well, he has his attorney general…

— Ray McGovern

The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a…

— Gouverneur Morris

... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

“In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having…

— Sunday Adelaja

Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our…

— Lawrence Lessig

They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable -…

— Scott Turow

People have the right to live as equal citizens under the law. They do not have the right to demand that their…

— Gad Saad

Until 1982, Canada Day was known as Dominion Day. I always thought that had more of a ring to it. Beyond the…

— Rick Moranis

Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the…

— Ronald Reagan

I am calling on all citizens with access to unreleased records pertaining to illegal, unconstitutional, or immoral government activities to return those…

— Ryan Shapiro

I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in…

— Gunter Grass

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into…

— Hazel Henderson

The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to…

— Thomas More

I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and…

— Gary Johnson

[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or…

— Rudolph Rummel

Perhaps we believe that everything travels by air, or magically and instantaneously like information (which is actually anchored by cables on the…

— Rose George

As society changes, laws have to change to protect citizens along the way. Sometimes you have to try new and different and…

— John Rowland