Citizens Quotes - Page 20

• I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are.

  Rand Paul

  Gun, Thinking, Law

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2015.

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• A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in ways not available to the general population, if you want to put it that way. They're interesting and unpredictable. Characters always have to break some sort of bound or other to be interesting. It also helps if they're paradoxical.

  William Monahan

  Character, Interesting, Criminals

  Source: collider.com

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• Forced federal registration of U.S. citizens based on religious identity is fascism, period. Nothing else to call it.

  Rachel Maddow

  Religious, Identity, Registration

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• One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.

  Frank Church

  Beer, Thinking, America

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• Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.

  F. David Mathews

  Country, Mean, Choices

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• There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

  Joan Claybrook

  Democracy, Ordinary, Problem

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• Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy.

  John Ralston Saul

  Order, Government, Silence

  "On Equilibrium". Book by John Ralston Saul, 2001.

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• I'm of the belief that you can have only one commander-in-chief at a time, only one president at a time. President Bush is our president. Whatever he decides vis-a-vis war or peace in Iraq is what we will do as a country. And I for one will swing in behind him as a citizen ... and support whatever his decision is.

  Dan Rather

  Country, War, Swings

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• As an American citizen, I'm not asking for any special treatment - the only thing I ask and want is to be treated just like an Illegal Alien.

  Howie Carr

  Special, Asking, Want

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• One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.

  George W. Bush

  Meaningful, Heart, Purple

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• I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

  Eva Green

  Blood, Borders, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

  Henry Rollins

  Teacher, Responsibility, Thinking

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• If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

  Henry Rollins

  Law, Looks, Constitution

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• We shall always place education side by side with instruction; the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart. While we prepare useful citizens for society, we shall likewise do our utmost to prepare citizens for heaven.

  Basil Moreau

  Heart, Heaven, Mind

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• Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service.

  Woody Allen

  Gun, Criminals, Groups

  "Fictional character: Miles Monroe". Sleeper, 1973.

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• I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.

  Theodore Bikel

  Responsibility, Speaks Out, Voice

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• Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Years, Age, Able

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.812, Best Books on

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• Bad men cannot make good citizens.

  Patrick Henry

  Men, Tyrants, Adherence

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• May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.

  Potter Stewart

  Unattractive, May, Might

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• Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and engaged citizens. Every year, we spend nearly $100 billion on corporate welfare, and more than $500 billion on defense spending. Surely ensuring the next generation can compete in the global economy is at least as important as subsidies for big business and military adventures around the globe. In fact, I think we can and must go further - not just making public higher education tuition-free, but reinventing education in America as we know it.

  Robert Reich

  Education, Military, Adventure

  "Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #5: How to Reinvent Education" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2015.

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• The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.

  Joe McGinniss

  Doe, Vote, Psychological

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• Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

  Carol Leifer

  Senior, Retirement, Time Flies

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• For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Hands, Puppets

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from May 24, 2011

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• That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

  Chris Hayes

  Children, Class, Cities

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen. And if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.

  Colin Powell

  Might, Care, Election

  "Powell: Don't Let Terrorism Change 'Who We Are'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 2, 2011.

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