Quotes on the topic: Citizens


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Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.


There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.


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.


Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.


Europe must be understood and controlled by its citizens.


Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.


How do we ensure in the case of public goods that they are provided at all, and that they are provided at the right level, taking into account citizens' preferences?


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.


Our priority will be to look after the interests of our own country and its citizens.


Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.


Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.


I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.


The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.


Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.


I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens.


We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.


I would never turn my back on my fellow citizens.


I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.


No one is speaking about the Arab citizens of Israel.


How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?