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Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.
Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.
You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you.
You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.
We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."
We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.
I remind myself of the power of thought and how it's my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel compassion.
The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.
I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.
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.
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
I am going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone, but my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.
Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.
The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.
I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?
Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.
Our duty as concerned citizens is to educate ourselves so that we can recognize and report trafficking to the proper authorities.
If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.
I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
It is too disgusting to contemplate that a handful of men keep millions of women from being constitutional citizens of this land.
Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.
Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.
The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.
Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.