Citizens Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When you see illegals and people who aren't citizens and they're on the registration rolls ... We can be babies, but you take a look at the registration you have illegals, you have dead people, you have this. It's really a bad situation. It's really bad.

  Donald Trump

  Baby, People, Looks

  "Donald Trump Super Bowl interview transcript with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly". www.sbnation.com. February 5, 2017.

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• [Subjects of the targeted killings] are supposed to be high-level Al Qaeda operatives that pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and American personnel and citizens. There's supposed to be no way to capture them. The "kill list" is calculated in the "terror Tuesdays" at the White House every week, where the President and his advisors - including CIA - "nominate" people to be on the kill list.

  Medea Benjamin

  White, Tuesday, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think our duty as American citizens is to be involved and engaged in anything that affects us. As an artist, I have to use my platform, and as a dad, a brother, and a black man, I have to be as socially woke and present as possible.

  Chance the Rapper

  Brother, Dad, Artist

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to the university, I just couldn't reconcile that book and some of its points of view with stuff I was learning in my academic career. And so then you have a choice: either you give up your academic career and close your mind and become a constant fundamentalist, or you give up your religion and become a citizen of the modern world and get a modern education, or just spend the rest of your life balancing the two things together, forcing them into a dialogue.

  John Shelby Spong

  Giving Up, Book, Careers

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of people - law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.politico.com

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• A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Tragedy, Reign

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• Why will our elections be universal?Because all citizens, excluding those deprived of vote by court, will have the right to vote and the right to be elected.

  Joseph Stalin

  Election, Vote, Court

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• Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

  Amity Shlaes

  Government, Benefits, Economy

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.

  Wole Soyinka

  Responsibility, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I think the regime in North Korea is more fragile than people think. The country's economic system remains desperate, and one thing that could happen for example would be under a new government in South Korea, to get the South Korean government to live up to its own constitution, which says any Korean who makes it to South Korea, is a Korean citizen. A citizen of the Republic of Korea. And you could imagine the impact that would have inside North Korea if people thought, "If I could get out and make it to South Korea, I could have a different life."

  John Bolton

  Country, Thinking, Korea

  Source: humanevents.com

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• You are an American, so you're hurt that other American citizens have been hurt, but you end up having to shoulder the shame for something that you don't even believe. There's a lot of years where Muslims have dealt with having to make themselves very small and not disrupt the flow and not - make sure that you're not noticed because, you know, deep down inside people are not really excited that you're around .

  Mahershala Ali

  Hurt, Believe, Years

  "In 'Moonlight,' Actor Mahershala Ali Found Characters He Recognized". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, publicradioeast.org. February 16, 2017.

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• I have one of the strongest records in fighting for senior citizens. I led the effort to prevent cuts to Social Security. But I think for some seniors, they remember the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. They conflated the term "democratic socialism" with communism.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, Fighting, Cutting

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• Now an American president like [Ronald] Reagan wouldn't have a meeting, wouldn't have a summit. He'd give 'em a warning and then - or [Gerge W.] Bush would give 'em a warning and then - whatever would happen. Because you don't allow the murder of American citizens. You just don't permit it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Giving, President, Ems

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I ran for president to present the citizens of America. I am here to change the broken system so it serves their families and their communities well.

  Donald Trump

  America, Broken, Community

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Among the responsibilities, we will be ending the bleeding of jobs from our country and negotiating fair trade deals for our citizens.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Responsibility

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I would love to get to a point where people do trust the police and the police trust the citizens, and there is a harmonious way of living. It's rough out there. I've seen it. I've been part of it. I'm hoping for the best.

  Cedric Yarbrough

  People, Police, Way

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• I am calling on all citizens with access to unreleased records pertaining to illegal, unconstitutional, or immoral government activities to return those records to their rightful owners, the American people.

  Ryan Shapiro

  Government, People, Calling

  Source: news.vice.com

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• If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.

  Maya Angelou

  Cutting, Class, Support

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens.

  Wangari Maathai

  Responsibility, Government, Corporations

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers were hell-bent to stop government action. The Constitution limited government. And that's why people like Obama and Democrats call it a charter of negative liberties because it limits government. It's an anti-government, pro-citizen document. And the founders wanted to make it hard.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Father, Government, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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