Citizens Quotes - Page 36

• We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our citizens, and not some foreign people who think that they have an interest in skewing our election in one direction or another.

  Samantha Power

  Thinking, One Direction, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There was a real choice when [Barack Obama] became president. It was a very difficult choice - to say, "We're not going to hold senior officials to account with the same laws that every other citizen in the country is held to," or "This is a nation that believes in the rule of law."

  Edward Snowden

  Senior, Country, Real

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• Microsoft is in a court battle with the Department of Justice. The DOJ is saying, "We want information from your data center in Ireland. It's not about a US citizen, but we want it." Microsoft said, "OK, fine. Go to a judge in Ireland. Ask them for a warrant. We have a mutual legal-assistance treaty. They'll do it. Give that to us, and we'll provide the information to you in accordance with Irish laws."

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Data, Giving

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Russia recently passed a law - I think a terrible law - which says you have to store all of the data from Russian citizens on Russian soil just to prevent other countries from playing the same kind of legal games we're playing in this Microsoft case.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Thinking, Russia

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and no one has been put on trial for it or even investigated. We don't even have an inquiry into it.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Inquiry, Trials

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its intrusion into your rights. If you stop defending your rights by saying, "I don't need them in this context" or "I can't understand this," they are no longer rights.

  Edward Snowden

  Responsibility, Rights, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

  Edward Snowden

  President, Movement, Reason

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been the fate of certain types of Protestantism. They get under the control of a White Citizens Council while the Catholic Church has an authoritarian system, yes, in which the Bishop expresses the conscience of the whole Christian community and they say there are some things that you can't do on this matter.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Fate, Ku Klux Klan

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to make it easy for the police to do their work.

  Edward Snowden

  Police, Way, Easy

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• The question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our ability to spy on other countries and foreign citizens? I have my opinion about that, but we all collectively have to come to our opinion about it.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Rights, Spy

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

  Jeff Sessions

  America, Maintaining, Committed

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm still divided in my principles and what I think is right and what I'm actually able to do, whether talking about writing or being a citizen or being a husband or being a father. And I'm trying to get better.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Husband, Father, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We have strong statistical evidence that shows that transgender people are twice as likely as their fellow citizens to join the military, to have served in the military.

  Allyson Robinson

  Strong, Military, People

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• The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against cruel and unusual punishment. And there is a growing body of legal precedent that shows that transgender people who are incarcerated should be provided with these medically necessary procedures. In cases where they're not, it is considered a violation of those rights.

  Allyson Robinson

  Rights, Punishment, People

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• A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.

  Judith Butler

  Fall, Gay, Mourning

  Interview With Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.

  Judith Butler

  Israel, People, Want

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I think we're paralyzed by the virtues of a combination of liberalism and bureaucracy. And Trump doesn't know any of that. All he knows, and he's like every other citizen, fed up with it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Virtue, Trump

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.

  Vaclav Havel

  President, States, Barack

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

  Cornel West

  Accountability, Drones, Judicial Review

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Both America and Britain understand that governments must be responsive to everyday working people, that governments must represent their own citizens.

  Donald Trump

  Government, America, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• 70 percent of Turkey’s citizens favored the EU; today it is only 50 percent. If you ask if they want Turkey to become an EU member, 60 to 65 percent still say yes. But if you ask: Do you believe Europe will accept Turkey, 60 percent say no.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Believe, Europe, Turkeys

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• Wages never seem to go up. The whole economy feels stuck, and millions of Americans, millions of Americans, middle-class security is now just a memory. Progressives like to talk like Barack Obama likes to talk forever about poverty in America. And if a talk did any good, we'd have overcome those deep problems long ago. This explains why under the most liberal president we have had so far, poverty in America is worse, especially for our fellow citizens who were promised better and who need it most.

  Paul Ryan

  Memories, Long Ago, Class

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of life who, in the last half of the 18th century and early 19th century, articulated the rights of colonists, secured independence from Great Britain, and established new constitutional republics at both the national and state levels. This definition includes a cast of thousands who played their patriotic part at the local, state, and/or national levels. Among them were citizen soldiers, elected representatives, polemicists, and patriot preachers.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Father, Patriotic, Two

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• God ordained and established civil government, but only to serve the common good. A civil government that oppresses its people and acts contrary to the people's interests deposes itself, ceases to be a legitimate government, and, therefore, citizens are no longer obligated by Scripture to obey it.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Government, People, Scripture

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I don't want people to chop off the citizens' or anybody's heads in the Middle East, OK? Because they're Christian or Muslim or anything else.

  Donald Trump

  Christian, People, Middle East

  Interview with David Muir, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2017.

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