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Is 'Garden State' the next 'Citizen Kane'? Of course not. I'd like to think we aimed a little higher than that, frankly.
To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.
Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.
As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.
I got elected as the mayor of Philadelphia and yes I am black. But my responsibility is to all the citizens of the city.
I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.
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.
Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.
No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.
I think Puerto Rico becoming a state would fulfill the destiny of 3.5 million American citizens that live in Puerto Rico.
NCS - National Citizen Service is a fantastic programme. I want it to be available for every young person in the country.
The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
Connectivity is important to our state, including the opportunity for our citizens to see our legislative process at work.
We know that when law-abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.
When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.
Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.
Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.
Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.
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.
More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.
The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli government's responsibility.
I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.
Not to our surprise, we discover that gun crime in Britain is up 10.9 percent since the disarmament of the private citizen.
Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.
I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.
Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.
The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.
The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.
History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.