Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it
Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
No political body is sacred, sustainable or under protection, which allows the exploitation of its weakest citizens.
Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.
If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.
I got elected as the mayor of Philadelphia and yes I am black. But my responsibility is to all the citizens of the city.
We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.
The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.
The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of eve...
I might have lived in England for the last several years, but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate all nuclear weapons.
The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.
