Citizenship Quotes

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

History is the key to citizenship.

The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.

The objectives of education and industry are identical. Both are interested in good citizenship, in serving society, in a better life-and both firmly believe in freedom.

Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag -if they do, they must be consequences -perhaps loss of citizenship or year in a jail.

Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.

And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

Regardless of what ideological twist people may have, about 90 to 95 percent of our population [in Puerto Rico] really values our citizenship. It's of utmost importance.

I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.

If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.

Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***

Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.

But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen.

I do not support citizenship for those already here illegally. Those who cut the line and broke our laws as their first act entering this country have foregone that opportunity.

I think what he [Donald Trump] has said is that people are not going to be eligible for legalization or citizenship unless they leave the country and get back in line.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV.

I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship.

I want to declare my Citizenship in the Kingdom of God and my allegiance to His Kingdom and His City!

We're not looking at citizenship. We're not looking at amnesty. We're looking at allowing people to stay here. We're working with everybody, Republican, we're working with Democrat.

There's no issue whatsoever. Ted Cruz has dual citizenship, because his mom is a U.S. citizen, so he gets naturalized citizen as a result of that.

[Donald] Trump is right when he says Ted Cruz citizenship has never been litigated!

You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.

People are demanding their rights and not backing down and I hope that change is on the horizon and change will come to Ethiopia soon, so I don't have even go that far to seek a U.S. citizenship.

The demographics are changing - and so what? Citizenship is a question of certain agreed-upon values and that is that. Do we believe that? I think at heart we do.

It is one of the great goals of my administration to invigorate the spirit of involvement and citizenship. We will encourage faith-based and community programs without changing their mission.

Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas.

I will fight every single day to pass comprehensive immigration-reform legislation with a path to citizenship.

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

The public citizenship oath done in a court in front of a judge and one's fellow citizens should be done publicly.

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

I don't support an amnesty.(Cornyn) demands an ongoing focus on security and workplace enforcement before considering steps to grant legal status, let alone citizenship.

I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.