Citizens Quotes
2419 Citizens quotes by 1406 unique authors
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You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made…
— Jennifer Pahlka
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There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending time online is…
— Unknown Author
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We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.
— Julia Gillard
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At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which…
— Stephen Ambrose
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It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle,…
— Medgar Evers
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I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.
— George W. Bush
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the…
— Harold Bloom
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Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man…
— Joseph Cotten
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The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places…
— Le Corbusier
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I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not…
— Ariel Sharon
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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know…
— Wendell Berry
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If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against…
— Thomas Aquinas
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My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on…
— George W. Bush
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My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for anything,
— Grover Norquist
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I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the next 25 years. We want…
— Grover Norquist
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When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and…
— Dennis Hastert
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
— Barbara Jordan
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He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens.
— Rush Limbaugh
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I could have sworn that they were originally Americans who maybe fled. Maybe they were illegal immigrants or something who got here, come here with…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Isn't protecting our legal citizens from an invading army of illegal aliens who are using our services and taking our jobs, isn't that a basic…
— Rush Limbaugh
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The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.
— John Hospers
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Absolutely love the new campaign from the Optimum Population Trust: do your bit for addressing climate change by having fewer children - or even no…
— Jonathon Porritt
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Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have…
— Don King
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Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing…
— Susan Sontag
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