All Quotes

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
‐‐ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie.
‐‐ Judy Greer

Citizens continue to demand government help in fighting cybercrime, defending children from stalkers and bullies, and protecting consumers.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Citizens identify with something larger than themselves - if one's country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that a fellow bank customer's account theft does not feel like a personal invasion.
‐‐ Jonathan Zittrain

Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

Citizens, not less generous than myself, let your most precious moments be employed in causing the past to be forgotten; let all my fellow-citizens swear never to recall the past; let them receive their misled brethren with open arms, and let them, in future, be on their guard against the traps of bad men.
‐‐ Toussaint Louverture

Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
‐‐ Zubin Mehta

Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to it all their lives, hold decent and reasonable hopes for its continued integrity.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
‐‐ Ed Koch

Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there's no going back to the old days.
‐‐ Hosni Mubarak

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Citizens United fought to defend our right to free speech - and won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
‐‐ Ted Deutch

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.
‐‐ Naomi Wolf

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

Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
‐‐ Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Citizenship must be precious, not handed out like candy in a parade. We don't ride along and throw out citizenship like you do M&M's or Tootsie Rolls or whatever it is we're tossing out in our parades.
‐‐ Steve King

Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.
‐‐ Hassan Rouhani

City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.
‐‐ Jane Byrne

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
‐‐ Gavin Newsom

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
‐‐ L. Neil Smith

City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make meetings, trying to make ends meet, trying to meet deadlines, trying to get kids to and from activities. There aren't enough hours in the day for all this business.
‐‐ Rebecca Pidgeon

'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script.
‐‐ Kevin Barry

'City of Fallen Angels' ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.
‐‐ Cassandra Clare

'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.
‐‐ Alice Cooper

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
‐‐ Edward Hoagland

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
‐‐ Donna Brazile

Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.
‐‐ Richard Dreyfuss

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.
‐‐ Paul Farmer

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
‐‐ Al Gore

Civil disobedience is - it's no fun.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.
‐‐ Pope Shenouda III

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.
‐‐ Joseph P. Bradley

Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
‐‐ Roger Wicker

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
‐‐ Benjamin Todd Jealous

Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.
‐‐ Eduardo Paes

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.
‐‐ Elizabeth Esty

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
‐‐ David Harris

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer