Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.
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I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last presidential election to do so, I should most certainly have cast my vote for Mr. Clay.
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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
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I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.
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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
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The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
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We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.
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When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.
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In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.
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The fence will continue being built and we will go on taking care of the security of Israel's citizens.
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She [Carolyn Maloney] has there day in and day out for us and for women of this country and of the world, but she also never forgets the citizens of New York, and she's been, as you know a trailblazer for 9/11, commission for, you know, the financial district, etc.
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A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
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When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish.
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As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.
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Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.
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The shortest distance between where we are today as a nation and an effective return to increasing our freedoms and widespread prosperity is for regular American citizens to read and study the great books.
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Nelson Mandela set his course a long time ago, and in word and deed, years of determination, sacrifice, and faith--he set a new standard in the likes of Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr. --changing the world and all of us for the better. I was one of those regular citizens watching when he made his first trip here after being released from prison. Amazing memories. I regret that I never met him in person. May he rest in peace
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
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As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.
