Citizens Quotes
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More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
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Obamas IRS is not the IRS Ive ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.
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Judges have no actual power of enforcement. They don't have troops to carry out orders. They have no power of the purse. Yet our system of laws depends on lowly citizens and presidents abiding by court rulings.
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Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.
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We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.
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It is repugnant to an American to inform upon his fellow citizens.
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Do you trust in your fellow citizens, in a sense that whatever they will have in additional tools they will use in balance more to the good or more to the bad? If you think they will use it more to the bad, you shouldn't do science, you know.
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State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
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I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.
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A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.
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When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.
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The citizens of America and the citizens of Texas expect to be able to live in safety in their communities. That's what the rule of law is truly all about.
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The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
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The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news.
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The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.
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At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.
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I understand the frustration of the community, i want citizens to know exactly how it happened, and if necessary, I will ensure that we hold the right people accountable.
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Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
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Energy weapons are being used against neighbors. The move toward a policy of imperialism ... has a clear and high price that will eventually be paid by the citizens of a nation that embarks on the imperialist path.
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If you are a Morocco citizen with a dual nationality, if you commit a crime in Morocco you are stripped Moroccan nationality and send to our own country. We can learn from them in that respect.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.
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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.
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I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.
