Citizenry Quote by Ezra Taft Benson

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

— Millard Fillmore

It’s not about electing the right people. It’s about a narrowing their responsibilities.

— John Stossel

A civically engaged citizenry feeds oxygen to our democracy.

— Alex Padilla

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

“Citizens hold a powerful tool: the ability to choose civility at the ballot box. That choice has ripple effects. When we elect leaders who…

— Diane Kalen-Sukra

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

— Ilana Mercer

“The people are committed to ruinous policies, all without noticing. They have neither the experience nor the time to study all these laws and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

I am the epitome of a citizen legislator.

— Ron Johnson

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

— Don Aitkin

The people have the right to know whether or not the person they elect has the capacity to represent them.

— Ron Crumpton

Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually…

— Bill McKibben

When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their…

— John Stuart Mill