Citizens Quotes
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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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.
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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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I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.
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When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
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Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.
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The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.
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To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this great state should endure this kind of catastrophe. Government failed you. Federal, state and local leaders by breaking the trust you placed in us.
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Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
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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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The moment you stigmatize a whole group of people - for example, Muslims - then, obviously, you make the decent, law-abiding Muslims feel as if they're under threat in some way or that their legitimacy, as members or citizens of society, is brought into question.
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It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.
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Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.
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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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All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.
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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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One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.
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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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Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
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The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.
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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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If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.
