Citizens Quotes - Page 29

• Now it is firstly a matter of a clean divorce, because citizens and companies need legal certainty. Can there be a new partnership with the United Kingdom one day? All 27 Member States would have to agree to that. And the United Kingdom would first have to reflect on what it wants itself.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Divorce, One Day, Want

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Between now and then, after 43 years of European marriage, the whole body of legislation will therefore have to be disentangled. That entails a whole range of specific and very complex questions: what will be the future legal status of the millions of EU citizens in the UK and the millions of Britons on the continent?

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Years, Body, Now And Then

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I prefer to concentrate on my task of leading Europe to the success that our citizens expect. We have to look forwards now because what is at stake is what makes Europe Europe.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Europe, Tasks, Looks

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Assessment, Nsa, Names

  "The Cumberbatch Kid Comes of Age and is All the Rage". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.

  Hillary Clinton

  Community, Police, Rebuilding

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you the American citizen leave a child in a hot car and that child was harmed by that you will be charged with negligence even if your action was unintentional.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Car, Hot

  "Bill O'Reilly: No prosecution of Hillary Clinton". www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2016.

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• It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.

  Dakota Fanning

  People, Appreciate, Important

  "Dakota Fanning on Why It's Good to Be a "Weird Person"". Interview by Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I've always thought that the role of citizen, the role of advocate, were as important in our democracy as running for office.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Office, Democracy

  "'Goldwater Girl': Putting Context To A Resurfaced Hillary Clinton Interview". Interview with Scott Simon, kmuw.org. March 26, 2016.

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• There cannot be a federal state of Europe without all citizens receiving the same benefits and rights.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Rights, Europe, Receiving

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• China is now urging citizens to eat less meat. Factory farming comes with immense costs to a society, and Chinese leaders are starting to recognize its implications for water use, the efficient use of grains and other food resources, and human health concerns.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Water, Leader, Chinese

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.

  Tony Blair

  Law, People, Abiding

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I think people know very little, really, about the court, how it works and its history. And both of those things are important in our country, but they're not things that most citizens know much about.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Country, Thinking, People

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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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• I don't care if it's five dead cops, a dead black citizen in Minnesota or in Louisiana, there are people trying to profit from it, politically profit from it. It's undeniable. I think it's cheap and I think it's sick. But they are there. And you and I both know who they are.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Sick, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If I can get you to a point where you can lead a full life, sustain a job, earn money for your family - you can be completely engaged as a citizen.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Our Family, Full Life

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction - The KHN Conversation". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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• Those are big challenges in our age, not just how we live as co-citizens in societies with people of different faiths and different cultures - I mean, that's a big challenge itself - but how we think about all that as Christians, or as Jews, or as Muslims, or as Hindus. How do we think about the religious other? There's a theological dimension as well as a civic dimension to our pluralism.

  Diana L. Eck

  Christian, Religious, Mean

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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, Economy

  "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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• Promoting a religious agenda that is to apply to every citizen is inconsistent with our laws in the US. It seems to me that your community and mine can live and work together without conflict.

  Bill Nye

  Religious, Law, Community

  "BioLogos Interviews Bill Nye". Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• We also discussed [with the President of Mexico] the great contributions of Mexican-American citizens to our two countries, my love for the people of Mexico, and the leadership and friendship between Mexico and the United States. It was a thoughtful and substantive conversation and it will go on for awhile. And, in the end we're all going to win. Both countries, we're all going to win.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thoughtful, Winning

  Source: time.com

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• Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Law, Immigration

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech" by Travis Dove, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• We will be fair, just, and compassionate to all, but our greatest compassion must be for our American citizens.

  Donald Trump

  Compassion, Fairs, Compassionate

  "Donald Trump promises 'no amnesty' in aggressive immigration speech - as it happened" by Trump vows to deport millions: 'There will be no amnesty' Scott Bixby, Tom McCarthy, Claire Phipps, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2016.

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• On top of that she promises uncontrolled, low-skilled immigration that continues to reduce jobs and wages for American workers, and especially for African-American and Hispanic workers within our country. Our citizens.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, African American

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Our message to the world will be this. You cannot obtain legal status or become a citizen of the United States by illegally entering our country. Can't do it.

  Donald Trump

  Country, United States, Entering

  "Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• I think what it's going to do is put an even greater highlight on the fact that Hillary Clinton has a 100-day amnesty plan, where everybody here, no matter whether you've been a criminal or not, no matter how you got here or not, is going to wind up becoming American citizens under Hillary Clinton's plan.

  Chris Christie

  Thinking, Wind, Criminals

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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