We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.
I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.
The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development.
If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa.
Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.
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.
I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for doing the wrong thing, too.
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.
It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.
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.
