Citizens Quotes - Page 35

• Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

  John Rawls

  Rights, Democracy, Liberty

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

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• Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.

  John Rawls

  Doctrine, Grounding, Happens

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

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• You might say that, if citizens are acting for the right reasons in a constitutional regime, then regardless of their comprehensive doctrines they want every other citizen to have justice. So you might say they're all working together to do one thing, namely to make sure every citizen has justice. Now that's not the only interest they all have, but it's the single thing they're all trying to do. In my language, they've striving toward one single end, the end of justice for all citizens.

  John Rawls

  Justice For All, Working Together, Trying

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• We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs, wages, and well-being come first.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Rights, African American

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• I am disappointed that we went through this process. The country went through this process. I think it's the responsibility of the government to help individual citizens as well as institutions, non-profits, corporations, to protect us. To help protect us.

  Donna Brazile

  Country, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people of faith are uniformly opposed to stem-cell research is not documented by surveys. In fact, many people of strong religious conviction think this can be a morally supportable approach.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Strong, Thinking

  Source: inters.org

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• You have made a very good point: both the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I enjoy a fairly high level of trust among the citizens of our countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Levels, Prime

  Source: www.rt.com

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• However, personally, I see this as not having the right to abuse this trust [among the citizens of Russia and Japan], and any decision we reach should correspond to the national interests of the Russian Federation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Japan, Decision

  Source: www.rt.com

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• As regards humanitarian issues and how to handle them, that was the Prime Minister's [Shinzō Abe] initiative. He brought the matter up at our last meeting in Lima and asked me straightforwardly whether we would agree to let Japanese citizens travel on a visa-free basis, resolve the issue in such a way as to enable them to visit the South Kurils, visit their native areas. I said at once that it was quite possible.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Matter, Way

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] also highlighted the need to address general humanitarian issues. We already mentioned one of these issues: visa-free travel by Japanese citizens to the South Kuril Islands.

  Vladimir Putin

  Islands, Issues, Needs

  Source: www.rt.com

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• There are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during the day were just ordinary citizens, and at night they would sneak off to the woods and party.

  Howard Rheingold

  Party, Night, Two

  Source: medium.com

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• All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.

  Robert Bly

  Sibling, School, Thinking

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Thinking, People, Empowering

  Source: thetartan.org

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• I want to tell you that Israel is a democracy and every citizen is automatically registered to vote. There's a commitment in our declaration of independence, guaranteed under Israel's law, that all our citizens, Arab and Jews, alike, have the right to vote.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Commitment, Israel, Law

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I certainly will make sure that everybody understands that I'm the prime minister of all of Israel's citizens, and I really believe that. It's something that my actions have shown. It's not a question of fence-mending, it's a question of real belief, and it's there. I don't have to fabricate it.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Believe, Israel

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 90 percent, 85 to 90 percent of Israeli citizens in Judea-Samaria, in the West Bank, live in clusters, in urban blocks. Everybody understands that if we were to have a solution then those blocks would stay in Israel. And that's where you saw these cranes; that's where Israelis live. In the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, everybody understands, they will stay.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Block, Israel, Jerusalem

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.

  Susan Rice

  Responsibility, Shapes, May

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.

  Susan Rice

  Judging, Consumers

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed to be doing this in this country. They listen in on our phone calls. I am not exaggerating because I have studied this a long time.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Phones, Government

  Source: www.lewrockwell.com

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• [White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't even give the basic human rights to over twenty-two million of its citizens. This is aud-, this is, this takes audacity; this takes nerve. So it is this attitude today that's causing the Americans to be condemned.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Attitude, Men

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Religious, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

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• God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human!

  Jeremiah Wright

  America, Damn, Humans

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think it's very important to be able to hear from our public leaders in ways that they can't entirely orchestrate, seeing them speak live and unscripted and take questions that they themselves haven't arranged ahead of time. I think this is a way in which citizens who are deciding what they think of their leaders who govern in their name, this is one of the ways in which they can evaluate how they feel about the quality of the leadership.

  David Folkenflik

  Thinking, Names, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.

  Tom Peters

  People, Library, World

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• My fellow Americans, it has been the honor of my life to serve you. I won't stop. In fact, I will be right there with you as a citizen for all my remaining days.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Honor, Facts, Has Beens

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