It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens. — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens. — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
“So why are there so many ordinary citizens among the griefers3 in World of Warcraft?” — Luke Cuddy Copy Share Image
Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle… — Joan Claybrook Copy Share Image
Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Many people - when they think about North Korea and the dictatorship, or the military or nuclear weapons, nuclear missiles, those things… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
If we want to keep farmers in business, it's time for all of us, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike, to begin… — Joan Dye Gussow Copy Share Image
It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What is called “apathy” is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Drafts of domestic legislation must be published, debated and publicly voted on, which gives ample opportunities to civil society organizations and ordinary… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I'm grateful that I allowed her to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“The same contradiction is expressed by the many ordinary citizens who dismiss the value of privacy yet nonetheless have passwords on their… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father… — Mia Love Copy Share Image
“democratic theory is concerned with processes by which ordinary citizens exert a relatively high degree of control over leaders;” — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
There are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
As ordinary citizens, we don't spend much time reading about and thinking through the creation of new laws or amendments of old… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money...And they who… — Reginald McKenna Copy Share Image
Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international… — Charles Albert Gobat Copy Share Image
A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly...… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
