Zitat des Tages über Amerikanischer Bürger / American Citizen:
I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.
Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.
I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.
As long as you're a citizen of our country. As long as you're an American citizen, you're part of this populist, economic nationalist movement.
I am proud to be an American Citizen.
As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy.
During the curfew, whoever went out, the people were watching you. Any Japanese home, there was some person figuring he's a good American citizen by doing his duty, and they were watching every move each family were doin'. Or if they went out, they followed them to see where they were goin'.
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.
It was a really big deal to become an American citizen the right way. You have to work really hard, and it is such an honor to be able to say that.
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.
As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.
We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.
My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife's grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States.
An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.
Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment.
People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.
More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.
I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected.
Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American citizen or a legal permanent resident, not by recent immigrants or by refugees. So tamping down immigration won't fix the real issue, which is 'homegrown' terrorism.
I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.
I belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.
I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
I am an American citizen, and I have visited Israel on a couple of occasions.
A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.
What happens is, illegal immigrants can run across the border, drop a baby, and say, 'Ha-ha, there's nothing you can do now. My kid's an American citizen.' Well, that wasn't the intent of the 14th Amendment. Americans would not agree with that. It creates a horrible incentive.
I'm just an American citizen like everyone else and I'm not sitting at the power table in the room where it all happens.