English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
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 the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.
Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
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 humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
I don't think a reporter necessarily becomes an arm of law enforcement. I think a reporter is like any other citizen. If a citizen can do his or her duty as a witness, if they have information about a crime, or if they have information about a criminal group, I think that there's a duty on the part of the citizen.
As a citizen of a democratic state, I have always believed that when a prime minister is elected in Israel, even those who voted against him at the polls are obligated to desire his success.
As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.
To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen.
If Barack Obama weren't a U.S. citizen, I'm sure Bill and Hillary Clinton would have figured that out by now.
Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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.
I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
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.
No matter how long you'd been in the country, if you weren't in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 - when I was particularly busy filming overseas - you can't become a citizen.
To my wife, I'm not Herbie Hancock the musician. I'm her husband. When I'm talking to a neighbor, I'm a neighbor. When I vote, I'm a citizen.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero.
I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.
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 have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.
Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
