Quotes and Sayings about Zen
"My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens."
- Alvin Adams
(Related: Day, Key, Public)
"The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Inequality)
"The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin."
- Gerry Adams
(Related: Agreement, Rights, London)
"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
- Samuel Adams
(Related: People, Constitution, states, United)
"Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards."
- Aeschines
(Related: Constitution, Democracy, Laws, Protection, State, Suspicion)
"Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine."
- Bashar al-Assad
(Related: Experience, America, Country, Palestine, Today)
"Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over."
- Amy Alcott
(Related: Golf, Mind, Spiritual, Zen)
"I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Now, Right)
"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Work, Law)
"Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Government, Attention, Genocide, Months, Past, World)
"Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen."
- Woody Allen
"Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II."
- Barbara Amiel
(Related: War, Countries, World, World war)
"For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth."
- Eric Anderson
(Related: Time, History, Company, Countries, First, Mission, Moon, Will, World, Youth)
"I expect we will become more demanding as citizens."
- Robert Anderson
(Related: Will)
"You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available."
- Sharron Angle
(Related: Money, Government, Job, Jobs, Unemployment, Want)
"I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: People, Being, Destiny, Lies, Nation, states, United, Woman)
"Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: People, Boxing, Now, World)
"When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Beauty, Money, Thought, Heart, Interest)
"What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions."
- Aristotle
(Related: Character, Performance, Virtue, Actions)
"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them."
- David Attenborough
(Related: Country, Dawn)
"How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?"
- John James Audubon
(Related: Books)
"This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera."
- Emanuel Azenberg
"Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no."
- Emanuel Azenberg
(Related: Theater, Will)
"Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship."
- Joe Baca
(Related: People, Character, Citizenship, Needs, Reform)
"Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Society, Citizenship, Open)
"By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Home, Encouraging, Burden, Welfare, Will, Workers)
"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Man, Strangers, World)
"When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens."
- Michael Badnarik
(Related: Education, Government, Thought, Control, Children, Influence, State)
"I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there."
- Howard Baker
(Related: Government, Travel, Visit, Washington, Will)
"Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment."
- Howard Baker
(Related: Government, Nature, Time, American, Country, Military, states, Treatment, United, Want)
"A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes."
- Ray Stannard Baker
(Related: Government, Law, Mob)
"Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately."
- Alec Baldwin
(Related: Home, Enemies)
"There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more."
- Joseph Barbera
(Related: Being, First, Job, Law, Man, Years)
"It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed."
- Joel Barlow
(Related: People, Safety)
"If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Home, War, America, Americans, Day, Iraq, states, Today, United, Will)
"No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions."
- Roy Barnes
(Related: Government, Work, Actions)
"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Duty)
"I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected."
- Charles F. Bass
(Related: American, Information, Name)
"When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens."
- Gary Bauer
(Related: Mistake, America, Law)
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
- Charles A. Beard
(Related: Fathers, Founding, Independence, Reputation, Struggle)
"The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican."
- Warren Beatty
(Related: Republican)
"I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does."
- Warren Beatty
(Related: Public, Question, Service, Want)
"I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service."
- Warren Beatty
(Related: Opinion, Public, Public opinion, Service)
"It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things."
- Paul Begala
(Related: Life, Being, Instinct, Right)
"Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about."
- E. T. Bell
(Related: Meeting)
"You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it."
- Robert Benchley
(Related: Family, Sense, Years)
"When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe."
- Mary Frances Berry
(Related: Abuse, Confidence, Job, Law, Police, Public)
"Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens."
- William Beveridge
(Related: Democracy, Dictators, Evil, Ignorance, May)
"Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water."
- Buffalo Bill
(Related: Fire, Snow, Water)
"Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed."
- Buffalo Bill
(Related: Men, Knowledge, Man)
"Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart."
- Marsha Blackburn
(Related: Intelligence, Military, Nation)
"Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently."
- Harry A. Blackmun
(Related: Homosexuality, Houses)
"The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind."
- William Blackstone
(Related: Law, Liberty, Man, Mankind)
"Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care."
- Kathleen Blanco
(Related: Care, Choice, Elderly, State, Want)
"When I left drama school, there were dozens of rep theatres you could apply to where you got a good training."
- Brenda Blethyn
(Related: Drama, School, Training)
"America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape."
- William Blum
(Related: Patriotism, Religion, America, Murder, State)
"Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens."
- Earl Blumenauer
(Related: Economics, Gay, Lesbian, Today)
"Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being."
- David Blunkett
(Related: People, Citizenship, Confidence, Identity, Sense)
"And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time."
- David Blunkett
(Related: Time, Thought, Action, Being, Prevention)
"My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens."
- Joseph Bologna
(Related: Comedians, Favorite)
"The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely."
- Robert Bolt
(Related: Law, Man, May)
"We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings."
- Kjell Magne Bondevik
(Related: Politics, Power)
"Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people."
- Jo Bonner
(Related: People, Financial, American, Being, Countries, Help, Ocean, Support)
"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
- Edward de Bono
(Related: History, Ignorance, Perceptions, Sense, Words)
"There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public."
- Amar Bose
(Related: Business, Time, Boston, Public)
"We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Americans, Constitution, Rights)
"Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Congress, Country, President, Vote, Voting, Weight)
"Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment."
- John Bradshaw
(Related: Children, World, Zen)
"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."
- Louis D. Brandeis
(Related: Office)
"In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then."
- Arthur Bremer
(Related: Life, Dress, Ridicule, School, Smile)
"Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants."
- Stephen Breyer
(Related: Government)
"Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy."
- David Brin
(Related: Democracy)
"In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens."
- David Brin
(Related: America, Being, Enemy, Glory, Nurses, Rest, Terror, Violence)
"We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways."
- Corrine Brown
"This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation."
- Corrine Brown
(Related: Elderly, Nation, Safety)
"There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant."
- H. Rap Brown
(Related: Citizenship, Class)
"Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls."
- Louise Brown
(Related: Women, Boys, Gender, Girls, Sexuality, Students, University)
"The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers."
- Louise Brown
(Related: Dancing, Girls, Will)
"Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies."
- Pat Brown
(Related: Bizarre, Letters, Police, Victims)
"While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later."
- Frank Bruno
(Related: Students, Trying)
"The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error."
- William Jennings Bryan
(Related: Cause, Error, Land)
"The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment."
- William Jennings Bryan
(Related: Government, Performance, Act, Duty, Enjoyment, Exercise, Rights, states, United, Will, Word)
"This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity."
- William Jennings Bryan
(Related: Cause, Defense, Error, Humanity, Land, Liberty)
"I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?"
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
(Related: Leadership, Power, Fear, Anxiety, Democrats, World)
"American power worldwide is at its historic zenith."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
(Related: Power, American, Zenith)
"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
(Related: Government, Defense)
"In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497."
- Warren Buffett
(Related: Financial, Depression, Military, Oil, President, Resignation, states, United, World)
"There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens."
- Martin Van Buren
(Related: Power, God, Country, Man, Opinion, Public, Public opinion, Unworthy, Will)
"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Democracy, Majority, Minority)
"Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana."
- Conrad Burns
(Related: Life, People, Montana, Rest, State)
"Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror."
- Richard Burr
(Related: Action, Congress, Help, Mission, Terror, Will)
"I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me."
- Richard Francis Burton
(Related: Time, Enemy, Mercy)
"One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another."
- Richard Francis Burton
(Related: Death, Man)
"But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives."
- Jeb Bush
(Related: Government, Money, Society, Caring, Responsibility, Weight)
"To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship."
- Robert Byrd
(Related: People, American, Duty, Extreme, Liberty, Right)
"Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago."
- Jane Byrne
(Related: Chicago)
"But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive."
- Jane Byrne
(Related: Government, Party)
"But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens."
- Jane Byrne
(Related: Opportunity, Commerce)
"There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either."
- James Callaghan
(Related: Injustice, Ireland, Irish, Loss, Worth)
"Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Taxes)
"It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers."
- Arthur Capper
(Related: Duty, Environment, Future)
"If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls."
- Arthur Capper
(Related: Men, Women, Sound, State)
"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
- Orson Scott Card
(Related: Acting, Writing)
"The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks."
- Russ Carnahan
(Related: Act, Country)
"Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing."
- Thomas Carper
(Related: Legal, Action, Class, Needs, Right)
"If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing."
- John le Carre
(Related: Politics, Truth, Nothing)
"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners."
- Johnny Carson
(Related: Eating, Television)
"We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?"
- Dana Carvey
(Related: Funny, Life, Idea, College, Now, Pretty, Silly)
"With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?"
- Julian Casablancas
"It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears."
- Marcus Porcius Cato
"When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: Positive, Canada, Day, World)
"The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem."
- Michael Chabon
(Related: Life, First, Sun, Writer)
"Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits."
- Chanakya
(Related: Men, Birds, Company, Poor, Support)
"About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly."
- Leslie Charteris
"Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship."
- Linda Chavez
(Related: Citizenship, English, Population)
"She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America."
- Lee Child
(Related: America, Diversity, Reflection)
"Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though."
- Tommy Chong
(Related: Citizenship)
"But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there."
- Thomas Haden Church
(Related: Time)
"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Country)
"Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation."
- Gene Clark
(Related: Art, Religion, Zen)
"To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour."
- John G. D. Clark
(Related: Time, Thought, Europe, Name, Open, Sensibility, World)
"The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say."
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: Quality, Measure, Public)
"I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare."
- Eldridge Cleaver
(Related: Dream, American, Struggle)
"Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: Integrity, Obligation, Right, Voting)
"Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Environmental, Policy, Balance, Earth, Needs)
"We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well."
- Thad Cochran
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Opportunity, Benefits, Help, Obligation, Today)
"Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world."
- Thomas Cochrane
(Related: Family, Community, Future, Loyalty, Mankind, Nation, World)
"The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country."
- Bainbridge Colby
(Related: Citizenship, Country, Loyalty)
"The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship."
- Bainbridge Colby
(Related: America, Citizenship)
"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."
- Nat King Cole
(Related: American, Rights)
"The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground."
- Paula Cole
(Related: Happiness, Darkness)
"A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens."
- John Coleman
(Related: American, Listening, Majority, Now)
"The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints."
- John Coleman
(Related: America, Tax, Key, Laws, Now, State, Washington)
"I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Man)
"I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little."
- Billy Connolly
(Related: People, Pretty, Want, World)
"Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy."
- John Conyers
(Related: Health, America, Care, Economy, Inflation)
"There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens."
- John Conyers
(Related: Crisis, Fact, Laws, Nation, President)
"The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society."
- James F. Cooper
(Related: Government, Society, Power, Wealth, Existence, Inequality, Law, Office)
"Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner."
- James F. Cooper
(Related: Happiness, Action, Being, Freedom, Rights, Individuality, Liberty, Order)
"Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen."
- Jeff Cooper
(Related: Change)
"The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory."
- Jeff Cooper
(Related: Family, Development, Police)
"We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue."
- Jim Cooper
(Related: Money, People, Party, Vote, Will, Years)
"As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field."
- Billy Corgan
(Related: Winning, Chicago)
"So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries."
- Bernard Cornwell
(Related: Books, Brazil, Countries)
"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Forget, Invention)
"Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment."
- James Gould Cozzens
(Related: Time, Accomplishment, Rebellion, Temper)
"One rose says more than the dozen."
- Wendy Craig
"Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well."
- Alan Cranston
(Related: Work, People, Values, Nation, Sense)
"The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest."
- Herbert Croly
(Related: Interest, Order, Property)
"The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization."
- Herbert Croly
(Related: Equality, Civilization, Achievement, American, Americans, Benefits, Gain, Liberty, Prosperity, World)
"And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field."
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
(Related: Knowledge, Creativity, Study, Years)
"And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness."
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
(Related: Happiness, Fact, Unhappiness)
"If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average."
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
(Related: Will)
"Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State."
- John Culberson
(Related: Protection, State)
"It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death."
- Elijah Cummings
(Related: Death, American, Civil rights, Journey, Unemployment, Violence, Workers)
"I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one."
- Bao Dai
(Related: Country)
"Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country."
- Bao Dai
(Related: Country)
"When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'"
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Business, Money, Act, Citizenship, Corporate, First, Help, Leaders, Profit)
"We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer."
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Purpose, Freedom, Public, Wrong)
"We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care."
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Health, Care, Choices, Now, State)
"We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?"
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Americans, Balance, Debt, Economy, Will)
"If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come."
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Change, Freedom, Friends, Majority, Will)
"So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive."
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Income)
"Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all."
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Diligence, Disease, Smoking)
"The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant."
- Susan Davis
(Related: Art, People, Idea)
"And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Faith, Christian, Old, Principles, State, Today, Tradition, Will)
"Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first."
- Clarence Day
(Related: Ants, First)
"On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Citizenship, Countries, Country, Israel, Majority)
"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."
- Eugene V. Debs
(Related: Country, Earth, Fight, World)
"In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves."
- Peter DeFazio
(Related: Actions, Cities, Security, Troops)
"A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens."
- Peter DeFazio
(Related: Government, Home, Force, Responsibility, Self, Troops)
"Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship."
- Jacques Delors
(Related: Time, Citizenship)
"I am a citizen of the world."
- Demosthenes
(Related: World)
"Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands."
- Jared Diamond
(Related: Americans, Animals, Defeat, Military, Native Americans, Troops, Weapons)
"We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty."
- Jose de Diego
(Related: Rights, states, United)
"These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities."
- Matt Dillon
(Related: Legal, People, Benefits, Want)
"If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens."
- John Dingell
(Related: Change, Time, Rights, Law, Laws)
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
- Diogenes
(Related: World)
"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
- Edward Dmytryk
"The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day."
- John Doolittle
(Related: Day, Hurt, Memory, Years)
"We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be."
- Matt Drudge
"There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Editors, Future, Internet, World)
"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."
- John Foster Dulles
(Related: Government, Violence)
"I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up."
- Sheena Easton
(Related: Time, Will)
"You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane."
- Roger Ebert
(Related: Eyes)
"I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out."
- Roger Ebert
(Related: Idea, Americans, First, Freedom, Responsibility, Speech)
"Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them."
- Charles Edison
(Related: Bosses, Democracy, Dictators, Ideals, State, Will)
"I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen."
- Edwin Edwards
(Related: Will)
"Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out."
- Zac Efron
(Related: Zen, Zone)
"It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them."
- Robert. L. Ehrlich
(Related: People, Public, Service, Thoughtful)
"My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future."
- Robert. L. Ehrlich
(Related: Education, Health, Children, Commitment, Focus, Future, Projects, Safety, Today, Will)
"We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens."
- Robert. L. Ehrlich
(Related: Government, Obligation, Safety)
"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Politics, People, Rights, Profession)
"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: Love, Faith, Intelligence, America, Cure, Energy, Freedom, Nothing, Wrong)
"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Related: American, Troops)
"The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about."
- Andrew Eldritch
(Related: Rules, Vocabulary)
"One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without."
- Elizabeth I
(Related: Man, Worth)
"While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos."
- Eliot Engel
(Related: Health, Chaos, Independence, Poor, Poverty, Years)
"To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen."
- Quintus Ennius
(Related: Crime, Open)
"Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something."
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
(Related: Culture)
"Every orientation presupposes a disorientation."
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
"Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed."
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
(Related: Politics, Greatness, Mediocrity)
"Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: Fear, Direction, Rights, Human rights, State)
"Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism."
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(Related: Muslim, Existence, Participation, World)
"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen."
- Sam Ervin
(Related: Home, Committee, Effect)
"It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner."
- Edward Everett
(Related: Athens, Battle, Law, Public)
"The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi."
- Medgar Evers
(Related: God, Gifts)
"Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce "gubernatorial.""
- Jimmy Fallon
(Related: Time, Decision, Actor, Needs, Running, Saying, Today, Will)
"Every citizen is king under a citizen king."
- Charles Simon Favart
"The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans."
- Diane Feinstein
(Related: People, Courage, Americans, Chance, Citizenship, Competence, Country, Rights, Service)
"I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year."
- Carly Fiorina
(Related: Opportunity, Debt, Tax, Income)
"But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from."
- Carly Fiorina
(Related: Government, People, Creation, Jobs, Senate)
"Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens."
- Ari Fleischer
(Related: Health, People, America, American, Care, Economy, Iraq, State, Will)
"State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy."
- Ernie Fletcher
(Related: Government, Progress, Poverty, State)
"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route."
- Malcolm Forbes
(Related: Doubt)
"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."
- Harrison Ford
(Related: News, Rest)
"There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries."
- Robert Fortune
(Related: Business, Wealth, Gardens, London)
"Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people."
- Vito Fossella
(Related: War, People, Terror)
"I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web."
- Alan Dean Foster
(Related: Newspapers, Reading)
"From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch."
- Virginia Foxx
(Related: Leadership, Children, Country, Right, Violence)
"Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day."
- Brendan Francis
(Related: Fear, Aspirations, Day, Man)
"Bobby and I went through some old questionnaires about customer requirements for languages, then we compiled a new one and sent it out to a few dozen people we knew."
- James Frank
(Related: People, Customer, Old)
"Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on."
- Chris Frantz
(Related: Christmas)
"The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Pleasure, Writing)
"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: People, Conversation, Drugs, Talk)
"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Change, Life, People, End, Self)
"It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Beginning, Reading, Writing)
"It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?"
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Work, Family, Attention, Meaning)
"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Books, Fun, Training, Trying)
"'s one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Success, Selling)
"I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994."
- Jonathan Franzen
"When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Family, People, Hope, American)
"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Security)
"I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Fact, Name, Now, Public)
"I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: First)
"I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: People, Man, Parents)
"I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly."
- Jonathan Franzen
"I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Life, Work, Father, Company, Satisfaction, Workers)
"I hate that word dysfunction."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Hate, Word)
"I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Writer, Writers)
"But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Funny, Being, Popular)
"And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Silence)
"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Life, Music)
"I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: Insanity)
"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."
- Jonathan Franzen
(Related: May)
"The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers."
- Peter Fraser
(Related: Education, Government, Ability, Country, Right)
"Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act."
- Dave Freudenthal
(Related: Dreams, Opportunity, Action, Envy, Will)
"Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence."
- Milton Friedman
(Related: Friend, Vision, Army, Freedom, Liberty, states, United)
"Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Income)
"Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear."
- Bill Frist
(Related: Faces, Facts, Now, Security, Stability, Support)
"The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute."
- J. William Fulbright
(Related: Country, Tribute)
"). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities."
- Frank Gaffney
(Related: Nations, Ships)
"It is our hope that in future discussions with the Mexican government, you will encourage Mexico to do its part to address illegal immigration rather than encourage their citizens to illegally enter the U.S."
- Elton Gallegly
(Related: Government, Hope, Future, Will)
"In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts."
- Stephen Gardiner
(Related: Art, Space, Zen)
"The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy."
- Jim Garrison
(Related: Jury, Participation)
"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."
- Martha Gellhorn
(Related: Citizenship, Occupation, Opinion)
"In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003."
- Jim Gerlach
(Related: Americans, Fact, Israel, March, Suicide)
"I'm confident in our resolve to make the decisions necessary to keep our country and our people safe and prosperous and I look forward to representing the citizens of Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the next two years."
- Jim Gerlach
(Related: People, Country, Decisions, Years)
"The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience."
- William Gibson
(Related: Experience, Universe)
"The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: Business, Health, Nature, Growth, American, Care, Economy, Will)
"To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: American, Debt, Public)
"Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: Will)
"An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job."
- Newt Gingrich
(Related: Americans, Electricity, Energy, Tax, Job, Living, May, Will)
"You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"I call architecture frozen music."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Architecture, Music)
"I thought that the AIVD was there to protect citizens like me."
- Theo Van Gogh
(Related: Thought)
"I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly."
- Joe Gold
"Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens."
- Samuel Gompers
(Related: Time, Men, Women, Act)
"After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity."
- Charlie Gonzalez
(Related: Success, Dignity, Nation)
"Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments."
- Bob Goodlatte
(Related: Cities, May, Now)
"We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state."
- Jennifer Granholm
(Related: State)
"I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need."
- Jennifer Granholm
(Related: Compassion, Generosity, Kindness)
"So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful."
- Jennifer Granholm
(Related: Hope, Will)
"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."
- Gunter Grass
(Related: Job, Open)
"Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States."
- Horace Gray
(Related: Country, Protection, states, United)
"My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy."
- Lee Greenwood
(Related: Being, Personality)
"We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class."
- Dick Gregory
(Related: Thought, American, Class, First, Wrong)
"If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder."
- William Greider
(Related: Finance, Money, Country, Healthcare, Income, Wage, Will)
"So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker."
- Alma Guillermoprieto
"One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one."
- James Gunn
(Related: Ideas, Right, Words)
"We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process."
- Luis Gutierrez
(Related: People, Citizenship, Help, March)
"Whatever man does he must do first in his mind."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: First, Man, Mind)
"So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Hope, Causes, Key, Study, Understanding)
"Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Life, Energy)
"Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Life, Mother, Water)
"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Principles)
"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Work, Peace, Heart, Knowledge, Victory, Solidarity, Teaching, Understanding)
"The source of this energy is the sun's radiation."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Energy, Sun)
"The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Work, Direction, Starvation)
"The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
"Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Money, Eyes, Machines, Measure, Research)
"Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Life, Mother, Water)
"I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Son, Sympathy, Countries, Nation, World)
"Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Life, Consequences, World)
"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Thought, Discovery, Thinking)
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Thought, Discovery, Thinking)
"A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Accident, Discovery, Meeting, Mind)
"A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Energy, Living)
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."
- Albert Szent Gyorgyi
(Related: Thought, Research)
"We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy."
- David Hackworth
(Related: War, Detail, Enemy, Media, Military)
"I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind."
- Conrad Hall
(Related: People, Zenith)
"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
- Fawn Hall
(Related: First, Rights)
"I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted."
- Jerry Hall
"Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news."
- Daniel Hannan
(Related: Day, News, Now)
"The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice."
- Daniel Hannan
(Related: Beauty, Laws, Practice, states, Taxes)
"Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."
- John Marshall Harlan
(Related: Constitution)
"But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here."
- John Marshall Harlan
(Related: Class, Constitution, Country, Eye, Law)
"As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble."
- Emmylou Harris
(Related: People, Thoughtful, Trouble)
"When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals."
- Dennis Hastert
(Related: Health, America, Care, Doctors, Hospitals)
"Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission."
- Doc Hastings
(Related: Iraq, Military, Mission, Risk, Security)
"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."
- Vaclav Havel
(Related: Peace, Nations, Self, State)
"Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation."
- John Hawkins
(Related: Sex, Discrimination, Right)
"Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts."
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: Quality, Responsibility, Water)
"Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job."
- J. D. Hayworth
(Related: American, Economy, Job)
"The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting."
- Lee Hazlewood
(Related: Time, Waiting)
"But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based."
- Seamus Heaney
(Related: Change, Trust, Truth, Perception, Possibilities)
"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
- Seamus Heaney
(Related: Positive, Realism, Sense, Writers)
"My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'"
- Mitch Hedberg
(Related: Friend, Want)
"I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state."
- Dave Heineman
(Related: Work, Family, Ideas, Thoughts, First, State, Will)
"Yet the home courses are where you spend dozens to hundreds of hours a year. You must choose them well."
- Joe Henderson
(Related: Home)
"The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve."
- Joe Henderson
(Related: Chance, First, Running)
"For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma."
- Brad Henry
(Related: God, Opportunity, Values, Children, Jobs, Potential, Right)
"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."
- O. Henry
(Related: Citizenship, Country, Court, Nothing, Treasure)
"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship."
- Patrick Henry
(Related: Health, Citizenship, Commerce, Freedom)
"It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing."
- Matthew Henson
(Related: God, Work, Land, Snow, Wind)
"There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Nothing, World)
"It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Goal, Blind)
"Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Government, Liberalism, Protest, Trifles)
"Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Life, Thinking)
"Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: History, Men, Thought, Body, Influence, Sheep, Will)
"No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Being, Blame, Dying, Fault, Misfortune, World)
"Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Life, Science, Wealth, Fish, Right)
"Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Civilization, First, Order, Slavery)
"You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Facts, Law, Logic)
"I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Thought, Absence, Feeling, Information, Man, Passion)
"Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?"
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: English, Houses, March, Parliament)
"What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!"
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Beauty, Nature, Power, Development, Human nature, Woman)
"We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Contemplation, Prayer, Spirit, World)
"Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Life, Development, Absurdity, Economy, Generations, Importance, Rules, Universe)
"All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Morality, Corruption, Obedience, Slavery, Violence, Will)
"Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Absurdity, Childhood, Insanity, Italy)
"If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there."
- Alexander Herzen
(Related: Future, Nations, Nothing, Ocean, Trouble)
"A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens."
- John Hickenlooper
(Related: Bureaucracy, Public, Symbol)
"The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out."
- Jim Hightower
(Related: People, News, Want)
"Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students."
- Daniel H. Hill
(Related: Business, Being, Conversation, Drinking, Students)
"I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen."
- Laura Hillenbrand
(Related: Work, Creativity, Fiction, Infinite, Potential, Writer, Writing)
"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."
- Heinrich Himmler
(Related: State)
"The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."
- Maurice Hinchey
(Related: American, Conscience, Oil, Sense)
"It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."
- Maurice Hinchey
(Related: American, Conscience, Oil, Sense)
"I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles."
- David Hockney
(Related: Garden, Will, Zen)
"The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction."
- Tim Holden
(Related: Society, Citizenship, Consequences, Inaction, Indifference, Prejudice, Racism)
"Accordingly, it is our task to ensure that the Government formulates policies that foster the continued development of the IT sector while also providing for citizens' access to technology and opportunity for economic advancement."
- Tim Holden
(Related: Government, Technology, Opportunity, Development)
"A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens."
- Tim Holden
(Related: Success, Technology, Growth, Information, Nation, Productivity, Variety)
"I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times."
- Judy Holliday
(Related: Actor)
"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Related: Fish, Memory, Water)
"Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong."
- John Jay Hooker
(Related: Government, Internet, Media, Right, Talk, Wrong)
"Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee."
- John Jay Hooker
(Related: Money, Corruption, Effort, Ridicule)
"A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government."
- John Jay Hooker
(Related: Government, People, Democracy, Influence, Internet, May)
"Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar."
- J. Edgar Hoover
(Related: Truth, Citizenship, Key, Law, Years)
"If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing."
- John Hope
(Related: Equality, Education, Money, Honesty, American, Privilege, Will)
"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."
- Anthony Hopkins
(Related: America, Citizenship)
"Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Ideas)
"The frozen ocean... of Boston life."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Life, Boston, Ocean)
"As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs."
- Kurt Huber
(Related: Destiny, Duty, Obvious, Right, Wrongs)
"I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger."
- Arianna Huffington
(Related: Time, Defeat, Energy, Now)
"The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made."
- Jane D. Hull
(Related: Growth, Community, Decisions, Future, Laws, Now, Right)
"No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted."
- Jane D. Hull
(Related: Citizenship, Country, Earth, Privilege)
"I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer."
- Jane D. Hull
(Related: Energy, Summer, Want)
"Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household."
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
(Related: Family, Father, Wife, Husband, Will)
"The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind."
- Ellsworth Huntington
(Related: Ability, Climate, Man, Mind)
"But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency."
- John Hutton
(Related: Ambition, Needs, Presidency, Will)
"Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?"
- Gwen Ifill
(Related: Citizenship, Country, Proof)
"There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries."
- Michael Ignatieff
(Related: Countries, Nationalism)
"A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things."
- James Inhofe
(Related: Country, Law, Will)
"Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land."
- Daniel Inouye
(Related: Future, Gambling, Land, May, Risk, Security)
"To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more."
- Ernest Istook
(Related: People, American, Americans, English, Help, Right, Vote)
"English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen."
- Ernest Istook
(Related: English, Language, Reading)
"All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Constitution, Rights, Nothing, Worth)
"Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Life, Country, Defense, Honor, Protection, Risk)
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act."
- Robert Jackson
(Related: Politics, Religion, Act, Force, Nationalism, Opinion, Word)
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
- Robert Jackson
(Related: Government, Error)
"Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens."
- Sheldon Jackson
(Related: Ambition, American, Clothes, Dress, Living, Style)
"I didn't want to be discriminated against because of my gender and status. I promised myself I was never going to be treated as a second-class citizen."
- Bianca Jagger
(Related: Gender, Want)
"Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game."
- Jim Jarmusch
(Related: Baseball, Games, Zen)
"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
- Randall Jarrell
(Related: Politicians)
"The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be."
- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
(Related: Home, Citizenship, Friends, May, Protection, School, State)
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: State)
"In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Education, Home, State)
"Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?"
- Billy Joel
(Related: Music, American, Being, Popular, Today, World)
"Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects."
- Andrew Johnson
(Related: Legal, Authority, Constitution, Limits)
"In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it."
- Phillip E. Johnson
(Related: Science)
"A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue."
- Phillip E. Johnson
(Related: Education, Virtue, Democracy, Trouble)
"What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small."
- Richard Mentor Johnson
(Related: Government, Virtue, Rights, Nations, Religious)
"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose."
- James Earl Jones
(Related: People, Law, Violence, Will, World)
"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
- Mary Harris Jones
(Related: American, Man)
"The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems."
- Barbara Jordan
(Related: America, Problems, Want)
"Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us."
- Barbara Jordan
(Related: Idea, American)
"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."
- Pauline Kael
(Related: American, Day, May, Now, Talking)
"A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us."
- Franz Kafka
(Related: Sea)
"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."
- Franz Kafka
(Related: Sea)
"I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain."
- Duke Kahanamoku
(Related: Rain)
"I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design."
- Mikhail Kalashnikov
(Related: Design)
"New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that."
- Dean Kamen
(Related: Technology, Ideas)
"In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated."
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Related: Experience, State)
"In addition we also hire many senior citizens."
- Carl Karcher
"This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide."
- Anatoly Karpov
(Related: Impression, Positive, Americans, Popular)
"Shrek is not like anything anybody has ever seen before."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
"You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: Work, Actor)
"What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: Imagination, Love, Animation)
"The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: Technology)
"Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: Nature, Creativity)
"The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: America, states, United)
"Since we made Shrek in the digital format, you actually can see it in its purest form digitally."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
"Inspiration comes from all different places."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: Inspiration)
"I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: Love, Movies, Being, Nothing, Privilege)
"I know what we do really well - I just try and keep us focused on doing that."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
"I have a very difficult time getting the Napster world."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: Time, World)
"It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: Business)
"A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: Company, Content, Creation)
"I haven't got a lot of patience."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: Patience)
"The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development."
- Frank B. Kellogg
(Related: Life, People, Development, Fact, Influence, states, Today, United)
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Men, Man, May, Pride, Words)
"The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression."
- Ramman Kenoun
(Related: Illusion, Nation, Occupation, Oppression)
"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
- John Maynard Keynes
(Related: Wealth, Inflation)
"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
- John Maynard Keynes
(Related: Government, Wealth, Inflation)
"What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?"
- Nikita Khrushchev
(Related: Being, Children, Innocence, May)
"People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife."
- Craig Kilborn
(Related: Sex, Wife, People, Now, Scandal, Years)
"The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'"
- Craig Kilborn
(Related: People, News, Running)
"They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger."
- Craig Kilborn
(Related: Brother, Saying, Vote, Will)
"The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Successful, Importance, Key, Public)
"All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens."
- Steve King
(Related: Americans, Benefits, Duty, Nation, Security)
"In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy."
- Michael Kinsley
(Related: Marriage, Leading, Politicians)
"We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output."
- Vaclav Klaus
(Related: Employees, Law, Limits, State, Will, Workers)
"Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it."
- Allen Klein
(Related: Open, Zen)
"The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy."
- David Korten
(Related: Decision, Democracy, Problems, Will)
"I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest."
- Lajos Kossuth
(Related: Development, Cause, Gentlemen, Interest, Pretty)
"I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine."
- Judith Krantz
(Related: Dating, Experience, Men, College, Fashion, Fiction, Housekeeping, Job, Writing, Years)
"Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions."
- Karl Kraus
(Related: Consequences)
"Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near."
- Fritz Kreisler
(Related: Genius, Word, World)
"Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Related: Religion, Thought, Man)
"The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee."
- Leonid Kuchma
(Related: Eyes, World)
"A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me."
- Charles Kuralt
(Related: People, Country, Moon)
"Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens."
- Charles Kuralt
(Related: Society, Time, Work, Help, Retirement, School, Trying, University)
"Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Citizenship, Experts)
"No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations."
- Louis L'Amour
(Related: End, Memories, Memory)
"Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life."
- Letitia Landon
(Related: Art, Life, Society, Water)
"Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government."
- Tom Lantos
(Related: Government, Courage, Internet, Mind, Name, Prison, Today)
"Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined."
- Tom Lantos
(Related: Anger, Faith, Government, Financial, Military, Popular, Resentment, states, Support, United)
"The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer."
- Christopher Lasch
(Related: Development)
"I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female."
- Queen Latifah
(Related: Age, People, African)
"I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned."
- Henry Laurens
(Related: Present, states)
"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Will)
"The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens."
- David Herbert Lawrence
(Related: Soul, Being)
"Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change."
- James A. Leach
(Related: Change, President, Reform, Security)
"First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will."
- Aleksandr Lebed
(Related: People, Policy, First, Law, Now, Will)
"We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world."
- Yuan T. Lee
(Related: Will, World)
"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."
- Annie Leibovitz
(Related: Protection, Zen)
"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."
- Aldo Leopold
(Related: Day, June, Man, May)
"I've done a dozen or two dozen infomercials."
- Matthew Lesko
"President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger."
- David Letterman
(Related: President)
"The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands."
- John L. Lewis
(Related: Government, Citizenship, Discontent, Law)
"Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America."
- John L. Lewis
(Related: America, Future, Labor, Thoughtful, Voice, Workers)
"The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this."
- Robert Ley
(Related: Right)
"When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her."
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: American, Court)
"Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever."
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: Change, Government, Health, Medical, Care, Nothing, Will)
"I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems."
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: America, Problems, Solution, World)
"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
- Abraham Lincoln
(Related: Confidence, Respect)
"I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens."
- John Linder
(Related: American, Beliefs, Country)
"In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death."
- John Linder
(Related: Death, Successful, Progress, Being, Elections, Iraq, Years)
"States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making."
- Anna Lindh
(Related: Education, People, Development, Decision, Growth, Benefits, Responsibility, Rules, states)
"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
- Walter Lippmann
(Related: Nature, Intelligence, Compliment, Insult, Opinion, Public, Public opinion, Sense, Will)
"We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court system that's crying out for more judges."
- Joe Lockhart
(Related: Court, Judges, Waiting)
"If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience."
- Kurt Loder
(Related: People, Culture, Youth)
"Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate."
- Vince Lombardi
(Related: Coaches)
"Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset."
- Clare Boothe Luce
(Related: Nature)
"While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty."
- Tran Duc Luong
(Related: Life, People, America, Being, Countries, Leading, Poverty)
"The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest."
- John Lynch
(Related: Government, People, Open, Today)
"We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet."
- John Lynch
(Related: People, Children, Justification, Needs, Obligation, Responsibility, State)
"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."
- Wangari Maathai
(Related: Difference, Trees, Will)
"I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really."
- Patrick Macnee
"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."
- Robert MacNeil
(Related: Thought, Negative, Positive, Country, Past, Tongue)
"The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy."
- James Madison
(Related: Food, Class, May)
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
- James Madison
(Related: Trust, People, Americans, Being, Countries, Right)
"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person."
- James Madison
(Related: Government, Society, Democracy)
"If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason."
- James Madison
(Related: Truth, Majority, Reason)
"It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest."
- Roger Mahony
(Related: Children)
"In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world."
- Henry James Sumner Maine
(Related: History, Home, Truth, Europe, World)
"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status."
- David Mamet
(Related: Death, Peace, Public, Question)
"Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood."
- Nick Mancuso
(Related: Country, Hollywood, Nations, Now, World)
"All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies."
- Thomas E. Mann
(Related: Leadership, Thought, President, Priorities)
"In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats."
- Thomas E. Mann
(Related: Successful, Republican, Republicans)
"Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs."
- Kamisese Mara
(Related: Business, Community, Confidence, Jobs, Law, Leading, Loss, Order, Sales, State)
"It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other."
- Frederick Marryat
"What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?"
- Wynton Marsalis
(Related: Injustice, Nation, Reason, World)
"She came up with a whole way of doing fluoroscopy, which is kind of like a live version of X-ray, so that she could see the heart as it worked, not frozen in a picture."
- Mary Stuart Masterson
(Related: Heart)
"A woman is a citizen who works for Mexico. We must not treat her differently from a man, except to honor her more."
- Adolfo Lopez Mateos
(Related: Honor, Man, Woman)
"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."
- Christa McAuliffe
(Related: Experience, Travel, Americans, Excitement, President, Space)
"I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen."
- Cormac McCarthy
"I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then."
- Claire McCaskill
(Related: Politics, Country, Republicans, Right, Trying)
"I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order."
- Tom McClintock
(Related: Movies, Order)
"When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen."
- Will McDonough
(Related: Boston, Newspapers, Now, Television, Years)
"Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Class)
"This election is a critical step in that overall plan - transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to secure its own borders and ensure the safety of its citizens."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Government, Safety)
"I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people."
- Richard McKenna
(Related: Money, People, Policy, Control, Banks, Credit, Destiny, Nation, Will)
"I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth."
- Mignon McLaughlin
(Related: Day, Fire, Man)
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
(Related: Change, Doubt, Thoughtful, World)
"It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States."
- Thomas F. Meagher
(Related: Hope, America, Duty, Effort, Ireland, Liberty, states, Succeed, Support, United)
"Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place."
- Michael Medved
(Related: Being, First, Questions, Want)
"Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops."
- Marty Meehan
(Related: American, Troops)
"Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out."
- Marty Meehan
(Related: America, Being, Past, Years)
"In all, dozens upon dozens of groups and organizations have prioritized stopping the killing in Darfur before there is no one left to be killed. It is high time that we, the U.S. Congress, join our name to that list."
- Kendrick Meek
(Related: Time, Congress, Killing, Name)
"Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time."
- Richard Meier
(Related: Time, Building, Rome)
"My fellow citizens, the state of our city is strong."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: State)
"Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind."
- James H. Meredith
(Related: Citizenship, Civil rights, Nothing)
"I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen."
- James H. Meredith
(Related: Government, Time, War, Day, Force, Rights, Military, states, United)
"I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems."
- Angela Merkel
(Related: Idea, Germany, Now, Priorities, Problems, Reflection, Unemployment)
"No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns."
- Howard Metzenbaum
(Related: Control, Talking)
"We care little about what the average citizen thinks."
- Tom Metzger
(Related: Care)
"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
- James A. Michener
(Related: Men, American, Nurses)
"The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately."
- Barbara Mikulski
(Related: American, Democracy, Right, Vote)
"The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens."
- Dennis Miller
(Related: states, United)
"Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay."
- Gary Miller
(Related: Ability, Citizenship, Hospitals, Treatment)
"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Life)
"The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Legal, Mystery, Rituals)
"The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime."
- Laura Miller
(Related: Family, Sacrifice, Dream, Waste)
"Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Harm)
"I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'"
- Wilson Mizner
(Related: Lying)
"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."
- Charles de Montesquieu
(Related: Apathy, Democracy, Public, Tyranny, Welfare)
"We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty."
- Charles Louis de Secondat Montes
(Related: Difference, Independence, Laws, Liberty, Present, Right)
"The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling."
- Charles Moore
(Related: Time, People, Civil rights, Country, Vote)
"A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life."
- Giorgio Morandi
(Related: Life, Artist)
"Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire."
- Daniel P. Moynihan
(Related: Act, Desire, Participation, Public)
"No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting."
- Roger Mudd
(Related: Character, Decision, Name, Voting)
"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth."
- Malcolm Muggeridge
(Related: Happiness, American, Moods, Pursuit, Trying, Youth)
"Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope."
- John Murray
(Related: Education, People, Hope)
"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."
- Len G. Murray
(Related: Death, Experience, Cosmos, Emotion, Man, Zenith)
"The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable."
- Benito Mussolini
"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Virtue, Consciousness, Mission, State, Unity)
"Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems."
- Alva Myrdal
(Related: Countries, Oppression)
"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Citizenship, Democracy)
"Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers."
- Grace Napolitano
(Related: Community, Needs, Security, Workers)
"Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in."
- Grace Napolitano
(Related: Facts, Leaders, Political leaders, Security, State, Will)
"Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote."
- George Jean Nathan
(Related: Vote)
"Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda."
- Richard Neal
(Related: American, Citizenship, Corporate, Countries, Tax, Trade, Years)
"Citizenship consists in the service of the country."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
(Related: Citizenship, Country, Service)
"There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century."
- Robert Nelson
(Related: Art, History, Technology, Time, Film)
"Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want."
- Eliot Ness
(Related: Law, Majority, Mind, Want)
"Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God."
- Michael Newdow
(Related: Government, God, Americans, Being, Existence)
"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."
- Larry Niven
(Related: Building, Space)
"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady."
- Richard M. Nixon
(Related: Film, First, Lady, Memory, President, Sky)
"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice."
- Max Nordau
(Related: Equality, Life, Civilization, Justice, Law, Principles, Property, Punishment, Respect, Word)
"We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens."
- Grover Norquist
(Related: Government, People, Want, Years)
"In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children."
- Oliver North
(Related: Children, Fire, First, World, Years)
"You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic."
- Michael Novak
(Related: Government, Job)
"But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen."
- Krist Novoselic
(Related: Guitar)
"One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Values, Christian, Muslim, Ideals, Nation, Population, states, United)
"This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him."
- Conan O'Brien
(Related: Popular, Sound, Will)
"Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me."
- Conan O'Brien
(Related: School, Schools, Today, Vote)
"We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens."
- Sandra Day O'Connor
(Related: Education, Values, Children, Principles)
"It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat."
- Christine O'Donnell
(Related: Time, People, Career, Congress, Hell, Politicians, Socialism, Washington)
"The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't."
- Rosie O'Donnell
(Related: Equality, Church, Democracy, President, Religious, Separation, State)
"I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression."
- Sharon Olds
(Related: Day, Depression, Reading, Writer)
"I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it."
- Pat Oliphant
(Related: Time, Cartoons)
"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."
- Michael Ondaatje
(Related: Home, Countries, Want)
"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."
- James Otis
(Related: Life, Public)
"What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control."
- Butch Otter
(Related: Government, Health, Life, Control, Act, Freedom, State)
"Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens."
- Robert Dale Owen
(Related: Nation, Property, Safety)
"If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis."
- Camille Paglia
(Related: American, Blame, First)
"And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech."
- Camille Paglia
(Related: Power, Thought, Superiority, Delusion, Democrats, Freedom, Needs, Party, Speech, Wishes, Word)
"The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal."
- Satchel Paige
(Related: Change, Baseball, Class)
"My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: American, Discovery, Journey, Presidency)
"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Culture, End, Ethics, Law, Luxury, Office, Reform, Self, Today)
"Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative."
- Joe Pantoliano
(Related: Actors, Want)
"I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen."
- Rosa Parks
(Related: Being)
"We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents."
- George Pataki
(Related: Family, Medical, People, Citizenship, Income)
"Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off."
- Chris Patten
(Related: Politics, Growth, Extreme, Fascism, World, Zen)
"The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen."
- Tim Pawlenty
(Related: Legal, People, Value)
"But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way."
- Lester B. Pearson
(Related: Peace, Support, Want)
"The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."
- Robert Peel
(Related: Time, Attention, Being, Community, Existence, Police, Public, Welfare)
"Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another."
- Richard Perle
(Related: American, Americans, Community, Rights)
"The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror."
- Richard Perle
(Related: War, Americans, Nation, Terror)
"Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused."
- Richard Perle
(Related: Law, Privacy, Value)
"Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry."
- Rick Perry
(Related: Democracy)
"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
- Harold Pinter
(Related: Country, Responsibility)
"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."
- Robert M. Pirsig
(Related: Mountains, Zen)
"Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen."
- Brad Pitt
"This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are."
- Plato
"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."
- Plato
(Related: Life, First, Justice, State)
"I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible."
- Marcus V. Pollio
(Related: Leisure, May, Moments, Occupation, Public)
"We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful."
- Robert Pozen
(Related: Company, Trade)
"Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons."
- Helen Prejean
(Related: Government, Values, Country, Dignity)
"After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures."
- Jack Prelutsky
(Related: Idea, Evening, Pen, Poems)
"I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor."
- Jack Prelutsky
(Related: Friend, Animals, Birds, Fun, Months, Poems)
"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."
- J. B. Priestley
(Related: Life, Hope)
"I am proud to be an American Citizen."
- Robert Purvis
(Related: American)
"The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom."
- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
(Related: Friend, Freedom, states, United)
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
- Ayn Rand
(Related: Government, History, Act, Force, May)
"Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all."
- Charles Rangel
(Related: Government, Society, Citizenship, Country, Participation, Protection, Right)
"We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again."
- Charles Rangel
(Related: Answers, Victims, Will)
"The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Contempt, Country, Pollution, World)
"So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Determination, Actors, Preparation, Will)
"When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off."
- John Ratzenberger
"So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: People, Hollywood)
"It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: People, Americans, states, United, Will)
"Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Humor, Comedians)
"The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Actor, Cute, Drama, Help, Mind, Project)
"On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Home, Right)
"There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started."
- John Ratzenberger
"There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: People, Projects, Reason, Swearing, Words, Writers)
"They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Country, Energy)
"Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Character, Years)
"You'll be tested every single day."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Day)
"You've got to write for your audience."
- John Ratzenberger
"I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Projects)
"To them, the real United States is just flyover country."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Country, states, United)
"But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: America, Today)
"In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Age, Son, Childhood, Fact, First, Word)
"A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Humor)
"Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Actors)
"Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Family, Kids)
"Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: People, Values, World)
"From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Country, Kids, Pride)
"Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Time, Hollywood)
"In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: People, Actors, professionals)
"I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Friends)
"I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Money, Past, Research, Years)
"I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Character)
"I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Thought, Acting, School)
"I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Daughters, Influence, Media, Parents, Sons)
"I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen."
- John Ratzenberger
"After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind."
- John Ratzenberger
(Related: Children, Day, End, Mind)
"Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact."
- John Rawls
(Related: Legislators, Reciprocity)
"The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men."
- John H. Reagan
(Related: Men, Constitution, State, states, United)
"I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do."
- Lynn Redgrave
(Related: Time, Thought, American, Country, Order, Right, Vote)
"But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen."
- Lynn Redgrave
(Related: Home, Right, Want)
"I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic."
- Martha Reeves
"Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that."
- Ad Reinhardt
(Related: Money, Idea, Selling, Artist, Fact, Living, Majority, Now, School)
"We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism."
- Jodi Rell
(Related: Faith, Privilege, Public, State)
"Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens."
- Tom Ridge
(Related: Liberty)
"Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve."
- Bob Riley
(Related: Government, Money, People, Nothing, State, Waste)
"The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only."
- Bob Riley
(Related: Government, People, Confidence, Fight, First, Giving, Reform)
"They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys."
- Julia Roberts
(Related: Women, Movies, People, Open)
"Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Books, Right, Will)
"This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America."
- Paul Robeson
(Related: People, America, Being, Fighting, Rights, states, United)
"As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this."
- Paul Robeson
(Related: Peace, Artist, Silence, Will)
"Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace."
- Paul Robeson
(Related: Peace, Sports, People, Citizenship, Fight, Rights, Labor, Struggle, Years)
"I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year,... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help."
- Ann Robinson
(Related: Food, Care, Tax, Help, Living, Sales)
"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time."
- Jackie Robinson
(Related: Time, American, Citizenship, First, Right)
"I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens."
- James E. Rogers
(Related: Belief, African, Americans, Frustration)
"Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society."
- Mike Rogers
(Related: Society, Values, Americans, Decency, Majority, Meaning, Public, Respect)
"I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster."
- Mike Rogers
(Related: Hope, Disaster, Today, Will)
"During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future."
- Dana Rohrabacher
(Related: Future, Privilege, Years)
"A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens."
- Al Roker
(Related: Effort, State, Victims, World)
"Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative."
- Christy Romano
(Related: Personality, Public, Want)
"And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job."
- Mitt Romney
(Related: Government, Love, Children, Job, Jobs, Taxes)
"Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed."
- Mitt Romney
(Related: Enemy, Rights)
"It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty."
- James Roosevelt
(Related: Successful, Elderly, Tax, Poverty, Security, Years)
"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: First, Weight)
"The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate."
- Elihu Root
(Related: Government, Successful, Growth, Exercise, Judgment, Practice, Reason)
"My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world."
- Joseph Rotblat
(Related: Peace, Help, World)
"I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards."
- Galen Rowell
(Related: Editors)
"It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing."
- Helen Rowland
(Related: Lovers)
"The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature."
- Jerry Rubin
(Related: Nature, Fame, Nothing)
"I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history."
- Marco Rubio
(Related: History, Society)
"If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence."
- Jane Rule
(Related: Life, People, Right, Silence)
"I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper."
- Damon Runyon
(Related: Baby, Clothes, Innovation)
"Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb."
- Benjamin Rush
(Related: Cheerfulness, Mirth, Remedies, Spirits, Water)
"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Democracy, Eloquence, Importance)
"I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'"
- David O. Russell
(Related: Experience, Ego, Spiritual, Will, Zen)
"We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens."
- Dora Russell
(Related: Government, Power, Act, Labor)
"Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare."
- Paul Ryan
(Related: Healthcare, Reform, Republicans, Want)
"The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America."
- Jim Ryun
(Related: America, Renunciation, states, United, Vow)
"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."
- Carl Sagan
(Related: Needs, Understanding, World)
"I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us."
- Leverett Saltonstall
(Related: Lie, Church, Confidence, Help, Will)
"I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games."
- Juan Antonio Samaranch
(Related: Love, People, Apology, Athletes, Games, Respect, Want)
"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."
- Jose Saramago
(Related: Obligation)
"The more I practice, the luckier I get."
- Gene Sarazen
(Related: Practice)
"I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right."
- Gene Sarazen
(Related: Care, Name, Right)
"You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
(Related: Son)
"Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows."
- Siegfried Sassoon
(Related: Death, Time, Land, Soldiers)
"The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government."
- Fritz Sauckel
(Related: Government, Majority)
"The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt."
- John Ralston Saul
(Related: Comfort, Doubt, Job)
"Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen."
- John Ralston Saul
(Related: Balance, Democracy, Key)
"No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Time, Trying)
"The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Time, Ability, Chess, Learning, Play, Will)
"Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant."
- Marilyn vos Savant
(Related: Home, Attention, Children, Office, Trying)
"If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility."
- Antonin Scalia
(Related: Death, Idea, Abortion, Constitution, Flexibility, Living, Right, Want)
"Architecture in general is frozen music."
- Friedrich von Schelling
(Related: Architecture, Music)
"The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany."
- Otto Schily
(Related: Muslim, Fanaticism, Germany, Living, Majority, Religious)
"There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Country, Monuments, states)
"Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Citizenship, May, Right, State)
"Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Citizenship)
"In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: War, American, Citizenship, Possession, Terrorism, World)
"It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Citizenship, Parents)
"We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift."
- Rose Schneiderman
(Related: Brothers, Charity, Mothers, Now, Sisters, Trying)
"Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows."
- Budd Schulberg
"My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe."
- Allyson Schwartz
(Related: Nation, Passion, Rhetoric)
"Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide."
- Jack Schwartz
(Related: War, Survival, Existence, Genocide, Israel, Military, Nation, Now)
"It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye."
- Jason Schwartzman
(Related: Funny, People, Eye, Public)
"If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Work, Country, Open, Play, Rules)
"If it bleeds, we can kill it."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Forget)
"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Government, People)
"You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Midnight, Waiting)
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Fact, Mind)
"The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Life, Character, Fight)
"The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Business, Dreams, Success, People, American, Freedom, Generosity)
"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Hate)
"There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: America, Country, states, United)
"The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: People, Being, Now, Politicians)
"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Body, Exercise, Spirit, Stress, Training)
"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Health)
"What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: May, Training, Weight, Years)
"When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Government, Society, People, Future)
"Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Women, Growth, Driving, Economy)
"I'll be back."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Education, Quality, Children, Future, Nothing, Today)
"I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Progress)
"To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Reform)
"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Dreams, People, Successful, Acting, Profession, State, Universe)
"In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Country, Difference, English, Parents)
"It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Belief, Giving, Quitting)
"Maria is the best reason to come home."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Home, Reason)
"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Babies, Beer)
"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Money, Now)
"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: People, Pain)
"My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Art, Friend, Lies)
"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Women, Society, Limits)
"My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Power, People, Authority, World)
"No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Religion, People, America, Nationality)
"One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Movies, Democrats, Lies)
"Political courage is not political suicide."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Courage, Suicide)
"Start wide, expand further, and never look back."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Strength, Winning, Surrender)
"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Body)
"I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Athletes, Body)
"I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Time)
"I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Marriage, Gay, Man, Woman)
"I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Promise, Will)
"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?"
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Woman)
"I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Ideas, Future)
"I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: People, Hope, Modesty, Thinking, Will, Word)
"I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Conversation, Walking)
"I have inhaled, exhaled everything."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Love, Interest)
"I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Time, People, Career, Country, Film, Honor, Public, Right, Service, Will)
"I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Family, Heart, Idea, America, Honor, Privilege, Vote, World)
"I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Education, Teachers)
"Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Life, Help, Meaning, Public, Reward, Service, Will, World)
"As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: American, Citizenship, Day, Forget, Will, Years)
"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: America, Country, Europe, states, United, World)
"I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Leadership, People, Old, Republican, Want, Will)
"Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: State)
"And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Selling, Now, State)
"As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: America, Americans, Open, Today)
"Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Family, Success, America, Career)
"Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Government, Duty, First, Obligation, Public, Safety)
"Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Women, Sacrifice, America, Freedom, Right)
"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Life, Being, Meaning)
"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Diet, Successful, Training)
"Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Failure, Succeed)
"We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger."
- Albert Schweitzer
"The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state."
- William Scranton
(Related: Government, People, Interest, State, Value)
"We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Citizenship, Compromise, Future, Giving, Guest, Labor, Needs, Workers)
"More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Home, Money, American, Property, states, United)
"Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Business, Citizenship, Guest, Workers)
"Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion."
- Natan Sharansky
(Related: Thought, People, Army, Illusion, World)
"Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous."
- Natan Sharansky
(Related: Power, Leaders, Popular, Support)
"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."
- Irwin Shaw
(Related: Family, Talent, Idea, Humanity, May, Nation, Romantic, Writer)
"I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs."
- Wallace Shawn
(Related: People, Fact)
"This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Vision, Being, Direction, Military, Understanding)
"I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States."
- Martin Sheen
(Related: Office, President, states, United)
"But the other thing is that I feel very confident in the individual pilots. They are tremendous individuals. They are individuals that have sworn to protect and defend our very citizens. That's why we serve."
- Hugh Shelton
"I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that has a role to play in this terrorism is working overtime now, taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens."
- Hugh Shelton
(Related: People, Action, American, Now, Play, Rest, Terrorism)
"It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case."
- Hugh Shelton
(Related: states, Terrorism, United)
"Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader."
- Eduard Shevardnadze
(Related: Leader, Elections, First)
"In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history."
- Mark Shields
(Related: History, Example, Fact, Giving, Nation)
"The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin."
- Mark Shields
(Related: Legislators)
"Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from."
- Andrew Shue
(Related: Help, School, Soccer)
"We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people."
- Andrew Shue
(Related: People, Character, Citizenship, Confidence)
"I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that."
- Ron Silver
(Related: Life, Policy, Democracy, Foreign policy, Learning, Reading, Talk)
"We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers."
- Rob Simmons
(Related: Military, Nation, Soldiers, Support, Will)
"The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated."
- William E. Simon
(Related: Government, People, American, Today, Will)
"I think I've been a great citizen."
- O. J. Simpson
"What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos."
- Peter Singer
(Related: American, Americans, Concern)
"In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is."
- Douglas Sirk
(Related: Art, Beauty, Politics, Idea)
"The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength."
- Goldwin Smith
(Related: Discipline, Strength, First, Soldiers)
"In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Life, Children)
"An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Artist, Artists, May)
"Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy."
- John W. Snow
(Related: Successful, Economy, Wrong)
"It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors."
- Vic Snyder
(Related: Age, Limitations)
"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right."
- Joseph Sobran
(Related: Government, Americans, Being, Fathers, Founding, Right)
"With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement."
- Todd Solondz
(Related: Age, People, American, World)
"I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value."
- Sissy Spacek
(Related: Family, Act, Motherhood, Project, Value, Years)
"The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens."
- Arlen Specter
(Related: Government, Purpose)
"Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry."
- Margaret Spellings
(Related: Education, Economy)
"The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness."
- Richard Stallman
(Related: Reason)
"But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction."
- Cliff Stearns
(Related: Crime, Fight, Law, State)
"You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby."
- Michael Steele
(Related: People, Control, Country, Law, Laws, Weapons)
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
- John Steinbeck
(Related: Ideas, Pretty)
"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
- Gloria Steinem
(Related: Authority, Skin)
"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."
- Gloria Steinem
(Related: Women, Idea, Fulfillment, Job, Right, Will)
"Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ."
- Robert Sternberg
(Related: Intelligence, Success, First, Job)
"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end."
- Adlai E. Stevenson
(Related: Beginning, Democracy, End, Law)
"I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek."
- Patrick Stewart
(Related: Thought, Force, Past)
"Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship."
- Mark Steyn
(Related: Government, Health, Care, Citizenship, Fact, State)
"The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist."
- George Stigler
(Related: Behavior, Challenge, Competition, Cooperation)
"A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens."
- George Stigler
(Related: Work, People, Language, Opinions)
"Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality."
- Harlan Stone
(Related: Equality, Nature, People, Ancestry, Doctrine)
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."
- Joseph Story
(Related: Intelligence, People, Virtue, Order, Public, Spirit)
"There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite."
- Peter Straub
(Related: Friend)
"I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen."
- Donald Sutherland
(Related: Career, Chance, Play)
"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"
- Paul Sweeney
(Related: Society, Patience)
"There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years."
- Matthew Sweet
(Related: Life, Buddhism, First, Now, Value, Years, Zen)
"Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary."
- David Sylvian
(Related: Belief, Discipline, Buddhism, Zen)
"Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us."
- Bob Taft
(Related: Time, Opportunity, Act, Eyes, Future, Present)
"If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system."
- Bob Taft
(Related: Time, Tax, Jobs, Tomorrow, Yesterday)
"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."
- Jalal Talabani
(Related: Discrimination, Iraq, Will)
"Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future."
- Kenzo Tange
(Related: Power, Future, Reform, Today)
"And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape."
- Billy Tauzin
"Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other."
- Robert Teeter
(Related: Leadership)
"Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens."
- Emmanuel Teney
(Related: Crime, Law, Murder)
"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Love, Time, Being, Danger, Day, Earth, Man)
"But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts."
- John Thorn
(Related: Old)
"Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists."
- Todd Tiahrt
(Related: War, Conflict, Now, Today)
"I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none."
- Gene Tierney
(Related: Men, Fun)
"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."
- Alexis de Tocqueville
(Related: Health, Society, Quality, May)
"We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it."
- Ernst Toller
(Related: Revolution, Right)
"While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences."
- Boris Trajkovski
(Related: Legal)
"Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied."
- Boris Trajkovski
(Related: Trust, Values, Community, Confidence, Identity, Principles, Will)
"I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither."
- William Trevor
(Related: Mother, Fiction, Motherhood, Mothers, Value)
"There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media."
- Linda Tripp
(Related: Fight, Media)
"Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility."
- Dalton Trumbo
(Related: Business, Government, Virtue, Democracy, Dishonesty, Job, Responsibility)
"Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial."
- Lyman Trumbull
(Related: Civil rights, Constitution, Laws, May, Respect, State)
"The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment."
- Lyman Trumbull
(Related: Equality, Civil rights, Punishment)
"In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations between our two countries, as their destinies are intertwined."
- Cyrus Vance
(Related: Time, American, Countries, Energy, Goodwill, Intellect)
"In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption."
- Raoul Vaneigem
(Related: Equality, Freedom)
"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
- Bill Vaughan
(Related: America, Democracy, Fight, Ocean, Vote, Will)
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy."
- Lope de Vega
(Related: Books, Envy, Flowers, Garden)
"So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed."
- Richard Ben Veniste
(Related: Intentions, states, United, Weapons)
"There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag."
- Jesse Ventura
(Related: Being)
"When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other."
- Jesse Ventura
(Related: Constitution, Right)
"Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens."
- Jesse Ventura
(Related: Government, Control)
"All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same."
- Jesse Ventura
(Related: Government, Acting, Choice, Loyalty, Respect, Will)
"Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens."
- Thomas Vilsack
(Related: Health, Care, Duty, Job, Now, Responsibility, Safety, Security)
"The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens."
- Thomas Vilsack
(Related: Government, Flexibility, Future, Healthcare, Security, State)
"The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens."
- Troy Vincent
(Related: Kids, Want)
"The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them."
- Jon Voight
(Related: Health, Work, Truth, Government, American, Care, Want)
"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another."
- Voltaire
(Related: Art, Government, Money, Class)
"No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all."
- Ginny B. Waite
(Related: Women, Class, Right, Vote)
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."
- Derek Walcott
(Related: Athens, Echo, May, Spain)
"Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation."
- Clint Walker
(Related: Vacation)
"Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave."
- Paul Walker
(Related: Experience, Ocean, Rest, World, Zen)
"It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and we won't get to an economic recovery without a moral recovery as well. So a citizen's movement about values and economics I'm finding all over the country on main street, and Wall Street needs to pay attention to that."
- Jim Wallace
(Related: Values, Americans, Attention, Country, Crisis, Economics, Needs)
"And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that."
- James T. Walsh
(Related: Commitment, Drugs, Now, Security, World)
"Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history."
- Jim Walsh
(Related: History, American, Security)
"Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information."
- Zach Wamp
(Related: Dying, Information, Kids, Needs, Parents)
"I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes."
- Zach Wamp
(Related: Property, Service, Tears, Will)
"Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further."
- Zach Wamp
(Related: Government, Medical, Control, Failure, Schools, Taxes)
"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."
- George Washington
"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."
- George Washington
(Related: Government, Defense, May, Property, Protection)
"I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's plan have not been invited to the discussion."
- Mel Watt
(Related: President, Visit)
"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
- Alan Watts
(Related: God, Spirituality, Thinking, Zen)
"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."
- Alan Watts
(Related: Mystics, Paradoxes, Study, Will, Zen)
"Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens."
- Daniel Webster
(Related: Men)
"When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country."
- Noah Webster
(Related: Trust, Country, Interest, Man)
"It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion."
- Noah Webster
(Related: Religion, Christian, Bible, Desire, New testament, Principles, Republican, Writer)
"You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end."
- Len Wein
(Related: Beginning, End, Rules, Will)
"In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history."
- Allen Weinstein
(Related: History, Government, Actions, Rights, Nation)
"Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina."
- Raquel Welch
"Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year."
- Bill Weld
(Related: Tax, Income, Security)
"Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application."
- William Weld
(Related: Government, Purpose, Sense)
"Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government."
- William Weld
(Related: Government, People, Right)
"If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service."
- Ida B. Wells
(Related: Time, Work, People, American, Conscience, Justice, Law, Punishment, Race, Service)
"As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level."
- Paul Wellstone
(Related: Community, Democracy, Responsibility)
"The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession."
- William H. Wharton
(Related: Government, Possession, Wilderness)
"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
- Alfred North Whitehead
(Related: Force, Ideals, Justice, Right)
"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world."
- Kate D. Wiggins
(Related: Life, Mother, Brothers, Rainbows, Roses, Sisters, Stars, World)
"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
- George Will
(Related: Pessimism, American)
"In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it."
- George Will
(Related: Sacrifice, Class, Income, Mail, Pleasure, Washington, Will, Word)
"There are a lot of people who waited a lot of years to become citizens. These people just walked across the border."
- Alvin Williams
(Related: People, Years)
"In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens."
- Wendell Willkie
(Related: Government, Fight, Party, Pressure)
"The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens."
- Wendell Willkie
(Related: Class, Constitution, First)
"And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood."
- John Sergeant Wise
(Related: Father, Brother, Son, Knowledge, Inspiration, America, Blood, Boys, Man)
"Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers."
- Mary Wollstonecraft
(Related: Men, Women, Fathers, Husbands, Neglect, Will, Wives)
"Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped."
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Women, Citizenship, Right)
"By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?"
- Victoria Woodhull
(Related: Right, states, United, Vote)
"It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment."
- Andrew Wyeth
"One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen."
- Philip Wylie
(Related: Change, May)
"We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine."
- Viktor Yanukovych
(Related: President, Will)
"President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed."
- Andrew Young
(Related: President)
"They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off."
- Cole Younger
(Related: Company, Independence)
"Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights."
- Cole Younger
(Related: Independence)
"You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player."
- Robin Yount
(Related: Coaches, Help, Managers, Years)
"Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West."
- Viktor Yushchenko
"Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have."
- Jose Luis Rodr?guez Zapatero
(Related: Power, Voice)
"The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights."
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
(Related: Progress, Rights, Nation)
"Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so."
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
(Related: Government)
"Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment."
- Dogen Zenji
(Related: Plants, Practice, Trees, Will)
"Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Network, Nothing, Service)
"In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Fact, First)
"If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype."
- Niklas Zennstrom
"And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Movies, Thought)
"We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: People, Talk)
"If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Computers, End)
"Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Family, People, Friends, Want)
"Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Connection, Internet)
"People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: People, Internet)
"The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Time, Change, Technology)
"Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: People, Internet, Software)
"We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Countries)
"We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: People, Network, World)
"What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Quality, Internet, Voice)
"When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Music, Thought, People, Now, Want)
"With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Computers, Work, Sense)
"It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Money, Internet)
"They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Sharing, Voice)
"Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on."
- Citium Zeno
(Related: Fate, Formula, Reason, World)
"No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil."
- Citium Zeno
(Related: Death, Evil)
"Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself."
- Citium Zeno