I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.
More than 1 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and my country remains the largest source of immigrants to the United States.
What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.
Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.
If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.
I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.
Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.
Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.
I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the world; that's what I prefer.
What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.
We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy - and wont cross the street to vote in a national election.
