American Citizens Quotes - Page 5

• If American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.

  Virgil Goode

  Office, Immigration, Citizens

  "Rep. Goode: No Apology For Muslim Letter". www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2006.

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• People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.

  Michele Bachmann

  Rights, People, Underwear

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• When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.

  James Meredith

  Rights, Citizens, Insult

  James Meredith (2012). “A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution.

  Malcolm X

  Giving Up, Gun, America

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Impact, Inheritance, May

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• I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The US has a young population, and everything can change within a year.

  Isabel Allende

  Home, Years, People

  "This much I know". Interview with Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2008.

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• I felt that as an American citizen, as a responsible citizen, I could no longer cooperate in concealing this information from the American public. I did this clearly at my own jeopardy and I am prepared to answer to all the consequences of this decision.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Decision, Citizens, Answers

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• He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a partner in preventing people from getting sick ... and that was part of our motivation for changing the Medicare system, and we are in the midst of a revolution in Medicare that will, for many, many generations have real results that will be good for America and good for American citizens.

  Andrew Card

  Motivation, Real, Government

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• Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy their constitutional rights.

  Paul Robeson

  Rights, Political, Citizens

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• Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

  Colin Powell

  Russia, Security Systems, America

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• Everyone knows that due process means judicial process, and when John Brennan brings him a list of people to be killed this particular week, that's not due process. That's certainly not judicial process. So there's the fifth amendment. Not even George Bush claimed the right to kill American citizens without due process.

  Ray McGovern

  Mean, People, Citizens

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We don't have storm troopers that just knock on the door of every American citizen. We don't do that for any crime. But when we have evidence that a particular person has committed a crime, we send law enforcement to apprehend them.

  Ted Cruz

  Doors, Law, Storm

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• I'm not trying to say stop Donald Trump from being elected as his party's nominee. I'm saying that we have a responsibility to raise our voices, to say what he does as an American citizen is pretty destructive to the practice of goodhearted and conscientious politics.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Party, Responsibility, Practice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I had to call in because I do believe, I know of cases, it is happening that some of these kids that weren't born here but they've lived here all their lives, they are being deported. And I also know of cases where the kids are born here, they're American citizens, they're put in foster homes and their parents are deported, and their parents are begging to get their kids back. That actually is happening.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Home, Kids

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen infringement on the civil rights and liberties of the American people. Undeterred by the public outcry, the president [George Bush] vows to continue spying on American citizens.

  Samuel Alito

  Rights, People, Balance

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• The United States is the most indebted country in the world. It has almost 17 billion dollars of debt with the rest of the world while living off the world's savings. They are living off the savings of the people of Greece, the savings of the people of Spain, France etc. All of those countries that save their reserves in the banks in dollars are simply financing the American economy, and that is why the average American citizen consumes two and a half times more than their income.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Average, Two

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• The singularity of Islam is its universality. As American citizens and as Muslims, you need to show there is something specific, namely our moral singularity. We believe there is one God and this one God is pushing us to reach universal values by liberating ourselves from our ego and by serving humanity. We must be involved in this by all means necessary, in a nonviolent way, through the legal, media, economic and cultural systems. We cannot achieve this if there is no courage, if we are not ready to sacrifice.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Believe, Mean, Sacrifice

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Donald Trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called birthers. He promoted the racist lie that President Obama is not really an American citizen, part of a sustained effort to delegitimize America's first black president.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lying, America, Effort

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• Donald Trump is more concerned about the American people, American citizens, people who are here legally, people that are struggling in this economy.

  Mike Pence

  Struggle, People, Citizens

  "Pence: Nothing In Trump Immigration Plan Has Changed". “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper, www.breitbart.com. August 28, 2016.

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• Donald Trump is going to remain completely focused on American citizens and people who are here legally, and how we get this country working for people who play by the rules.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Play, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Well, what I will tell you is the support from the world - it's not just an African-American citizen. There are people of all different walks of life who are rallying behind the concerns with the that Sandy was treated because what that says to me is that this is an American issue.

  Sharon Cooper

  Issues, People, Support

  "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

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• Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it.

  William A. Rusher

  War, Navy, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority to admit refugees, including Syrian refugees without mandating any background checks whatsoever. Now we've seen what happened in San Bernardino. When you are letting people in, when the FBI can't vet them, it puts American citizens at risk.

  Ted Cruz

  Eight, People, Risk

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Unfortunately, every American citizen takes the same position... that we don’t like negative advertisements. But they work! And, as you see, many a candidate has prevailed by tearing down the reputation of an opponent in a more advantageous position.

  Jimmy Carter

  Negative, Citizens, Opponents

  "President Jimmy Carter ‘NIV Lessons from Life Bible’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 22, 2012.

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• The new laws passed by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to the civil liberties of American citizens than to the operations of terrorists. Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

  Charley Reese

  Fighting, Law, Names

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