Citizens Quotes - Page 34

• Congress decides who becomes a citizen and how. To automatically say the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship, no, we can't change that. Amending the Constitution, not possible, takes too long. We gotta find another way of dealing with this. No, we don't, because it's not there. You don't have to amend the Constitution.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Long, Way, Constitution

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• Everybody knows that if you're born in America, you are a citizen. No, you're not.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Born, Knows

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• Despite the repeated attacks on American citizens by illegal aliens released from our jails, DHS refuses to stop freeing violent criminals who are in our country illegally.

  Matt Salmon

  Country, Jail, Criminals

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• Where does it say that we must allow anyone who wants to come to America to come in and become a citizen. I mean, this is a very, very tough thing to discuss.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, America, Doe

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• I especially appreciated hearing the President [Barack Obama] affirm that "black lives matter" and that it means that some citizens are feeling more pain, and experiencing more negative effects than others, and he offered up the stats. He also indicated that black lives matter does not negate the fact that blue lives matter. He ably walked the tightrope, here, between affirming both black life and police life.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Pain, Mean, Blue

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations.

  Stevie Wonder

  Children, Real, Thinking

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.

  Stevie Wonder

  Real, Communication, Stuff

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". "The Breakfast Club", www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if it was my own. I love your tolerance and preservation of the arts.

  will.i.am

  Country, Art, Love You

  Source: thesource.com

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• I think of myself as a global citizen.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Global Citizen

  Source: thesource.com

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• It's time to restore the bonds of trust between citizens. Let us give thanks for all that we have and let us boldly face the exciting new frontiers that lie ahead.

  Donald Trump

  Lying, Giving, Faces

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I believe in national service, I believe that every young adult citizen should do two years of national service. Not necessarily to be deployed, but to understand teamwork, responsibility and mixing with different people.

  Robert Irvine

  Teamwork, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury. They're signing a contract that they are 18 years of age or older and they're citizens of the United States.

  Audie Cornish

  Years, Age, United States

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.

  Bill McKibben

  Currents, Carbon, Reserves

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're not just speaking for yourself. You're speaking for family members, friends, classmates of yours in school.

  Barack Obama

  School, Voice, People

  "No, this video does not show Obama urging undocumented people to vote" by Caitlin Dewey and Abby Ohlheiser, www.washingtonpost.com. November 8, 2016.

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• I understood my personal responsibility in putting Christ on the cross and the implications of how the Gospel impacts every area of life. It informs my identity as a human, as an artist, and as a citizen of this country.

  Sho Baraka

  Country, Responsibility, Artist

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our constitutional structure. And I think if we did that, then the will of the people would not be overturned.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Thinking, People, Principles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We need early warning systems, technologies to deflect an asteroid - and we need political preparedness as well. It needs to be clear who is to decide what, who launches the rockets, who presents which bills to its citizens. This is a planetary decision. We need to do this all together. Or it will not happen.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Technology, Decision, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.

  Ai Weiwei

  Government, Spheres, Borders

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our responsibility as citizens is to keep doing our part.

  Hillary Clinton

  Responsibility

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Over the years, the European Union and the United States have worked together to ensure peace and prosperity for our citizens and for people around the world.

  Donald Tusk

  Years, People, Together

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Reflection, Brushes

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine like those of Kant or Mill. You could characterize this political good as the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another: the duty to give citizens public reasons for one's political actions.

  John Rawls

  Giving, Political, Doctrine

  Interview with Bernard G. Prusak, www.commonwealmagazine.org. September 25, 1998.

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• People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.

  John Rawls

  People, Giving, Want

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.620, Harvard University Press

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• The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.

  John Rawls

  Political, Life Is, Civility

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.621, Harvard University Press

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