Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues. — Howard Rheingold 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
Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“So why are there so many ordinary citizens among the griefers3 in World of Warcraft?” — Luke Cuddy 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
It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens. — Ruth Westheimer 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
Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms,… — Stephen Kinzer 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
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
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
In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by… — Joyce Lee Malcolm Copy Share Image
A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Often vastly more important, international agreements are not routinely published in draft form or publicly debated, and civil society organizations and ordinary… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“CWC (Church Women Concerned) enabled us as women in that part of South Africa, to see ourselves as ordinary citizens who found… — Sindiwe Magona Copy Share Image
Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the… — Barack Obama 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 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
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
[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it… — Keith Olbermann 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
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
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
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
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
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the… — Kenzo Tange 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
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
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