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.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Vote
  • Presidential
  • Election

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • Now
  • Voting

• 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!

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • True
  • Humanity
  • Rich

• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • People
  • Today
  • Forget

• 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.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Independent
  • Equality
  • Voting

• We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fighting
  • Should
  • Citizens

• In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Political
  • Democracy
  • Option

• The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Citizens
  • Ideal
  • Muslims

• We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • Actions
  • Citizens
  • Be Careful

• 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.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • United States
  • Citizens
  • Welfare

• In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Presidential
  • Voting

• The fence will continue being built and we will go on taking care of the security of Israel's citizens.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Care
  • Security
  • Citizens

• 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.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Should
  • Citizens
  • Demand

• When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish.

  

  Cory Booker
  • American
  • Together
  • Citizens

• As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Democracy
  • United States
  • Citizens

• Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Power
  • Bad
  • Free

• 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.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Great
  • Book
  • American

• To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • May
  • Loyalty
  • Citizens

• I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.

  

  Maynard Jackson
  • Perfect
  • Mean
  • Democracy

• The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court martial, I have been sentenced to death. I have served the Republic faithfully, and my death, as well as that of my brother, a victim like myself, and condemned in the same manner about a month ago, will sufficiently prove it. I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

  

  Wolfe Tone
  • Children
  • Brother
  • Citizens

• Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

  

  Michael Sandel
  • Different
  • Democracy
  • Common

• We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Man
  • Make
  • Seen

• As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Citizens
  • Voting