Citizen Quotes

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour.

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen.

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.

I am a citizen of the world.

We care little about what the average citizen thinks.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.