Citizens Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• 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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• I do have a side as a citizen, and I've always expressed it, and that's where I've gotten into misunderstandings, because some people see me as a leftist nut or whatever. A conspiracy nut. All that stuff. These are definitions that don't really apply to a dramatist, because a dramatist is working from empathy.

  Oliver Stone

  Nuts, People, Empathy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was a small country, a small republic. And what is it now? I have looked though the recent statistics, today the population of this country is 1.4 mln people. Where are the people? More than half of the citizens have left the country.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, People, Half

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• I firmly believe that the reputation of any country which is capable of defending the life and dignity of its citizens, and can conduct independent foreign policy will only improve in mid- and long-term perspective.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Believe, Independent

  Source: russialist.org

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• In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, People, Democracy

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.

  Vladimir Putin

  Agriculture, Important, Way

  Source: thesaker.is

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• If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take more money from you. So using that analogy, you should let your house become the shithole on the block and they'll reduce your taxes and you'll pay less. Be a bad citizen with your neighbors, right? You'll save money then.

  Jesse Ventura

  Block, Government, House

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• If you're a Mexican citizen whether you live in a shanty shack or the big palace on the beach, when you turn 65, your property taxes are cut in half.

  Jesse Ventura

  Beach, Cutting, Mexican

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• As advertising always convinces the sponsor even more than the public, the scientists have become sold, and remain sold, on the idea that they have the key to the Absolute, and that nothing will do for Mr. Average Citizen but to stuff himself full of electrons.

  Anthony Standen

  Science, Keys, Average

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.

  Zechariah Chafee

  Wisdom, Country, Men

  Commission on Freedom of the Press, Zechariah Chafee (1947). “Government and Mass Communications”, Chicago : University of Chicago Press

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• To manage our emotions is not to drug them or suppress them, but to understand them so that we can intelligently direct our emotional energies and intentions.... It's time for human beings to grow up emotionally, to mature into emotionally managed and responsible citizens. No magic pill will do it.

  Doc Childre

  Wisdom, Growing Up, Emotional

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• I am not saying that government has nothing to offer. Government has an important role in fostering an environment conducive to business creation while also protecting its citizens. These are not mutually exclusive.

  Sher Valenzuela

  Government, Important, Roles

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• Mexico has relied on television for decades to keep the citizens misinformed and in a constant state of stupor. I mean we live in a time where democracy is almost synonymous with oligarchy.

  Andrea Suarez Paz

  Mean, Democracy, Mexico

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.... Pick up a rifle - a really good rifle - and if you know how to use it well, you change instantly from a mouse to a man, from a peon to a caballero, and - most significantly - from a subject to a citizen.

  Jeff Cooper

  Queens, Men, Weapons

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