Citizenship Quotes

• Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you'll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff.

  

  Michael Arrington
  • Country
  • Family
  • Friends

• We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Immigration
  • Citizenship
  • Amnesty

• Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • New York
  • Worse
  • Arkansas

• We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Support
  • Citizenship
  • Pathway

• The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.

  

  George Monbiot
  • Government
  • Advantage
  • Theory

• Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Prayer

• If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Wins
  • Citizenship
  • Canadian

• Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.

  

  Eleanor Rathbone
  • Models
  • Achievements
  • Measuring

• Told reporters Wednesday he can support a pathway to citizenship for some of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and that he actually prefers it to a plan that would create a second-class of citizens through alternative programs.

  

  Darrell Issa
  • Support
  • Immigration
  • Program

• It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Time
  • American
  • Simple

• When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Country
  • Should
  • Crime

• The intimate connection between war and citizenship lies at the heart of the modern state,” Fouad ‘Ajami wrote of the 1967 defeat.

  

  Kanan Makiya
  • War
  • Connection
  • Intimate

• As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded - as the fostering of fuller U.S. citizenship among immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and their kids. But this very achievement separated poorer and often despised immigrant workers from Europe and workers of color in unprecedented ways.

  

  David Roediger
  • Kids
  • Achievement
  • Eastern

• The only hope we have here is that his Austrian citizenship gets cancelled.

  

  Efraim Zuroff
  • Hope
  • Citizenship
  • Cancelled

• Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.

  

  William C. Dement
  • Opportunity
  • Dreaming
  • Limitations

• Step one of the initial process of getting a non-immigrant visa is tough, renewing it is tough, and then transferring from the status of non-immigrant to immigrant or green card is tough. The only process which is easy is the last part of transferring from green card to citizenship, but getting there is quite a journey.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Journey
  • Status
  • Immigrant

• Any new pathway to citizenship is completely off the table ... [Illegal immigrants should be able to get citizenship] the same way as any other immigrant has to do it ... You have to apply for legal permanent residence, be it family-based or employment-based. You shouldn't be treated worse than the people doing it the right way, but I think it would be unconscionable for us to treat them better than the people who are doing it the right way.

  

  Raul Labrador
  • People
  • Immigration
  • Employment

• Capital in money form has no citizenship. It is fungible, an asset capable of moving from place to place in a nanosecond.

  

  Eric Kierans
  • Money
  • Moving
  • Citizenship

• Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Education
  • Affair
  • Citizenship

• Having music in the schools, having art in the schools, having art in your life, should not be heroic. It should be every day. Having things we've paid for years ago and that we depend on kept up - our schools, our political institutions - should not be a heroic act. It should be part of our daily citizenship. The idea that we had to do this incredibly exhausting, two-year-long, very expensive, labor intensive, community-based action, is, one the one hand unbelievably great, and, on the other hand, really depressing.

  

  David Lang
  • School
  • Political
  • Depressing

• It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work one will live, at least in the memory of some, and will have left a good example to those that come after. A work that is good-it may not be eternal, but the thought expressed in it is, and the work itself will certainly remain in existence for a long, long time; and if afterwards others arise, they can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and do their work in the same way.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Long
  • Real
  • Memories

• Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • History
  • Eternity
  • Residence

• I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here - on this little bit of very unreal estate.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Consider
  • Agnostic
  • Secular

• We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

  

  Geneva Overholser
  • Country
  • Suffering
  • Poverty

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