So, you know, I always say that I’m a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I’d be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker. – Alma Guillermoprieto
As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view of Third World countries are never expressed. We don’t have that possibility, sometimes, to spread what we feel and how we see things. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you’re a citizen automatically under suspicion. – Alexander Cockburn
I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen. – Antonio Banderas
I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time. – Charles Kennedy
A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen. – Barton Gellman
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. – Alexander Hamilton
I’m obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I’m not looked at as an American. – Ana Castillo
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. – Christopher Lasch
No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance. – Barry O’Farrell
I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn’t kill anybody and he didn’t get anyone killed. – Andrew Young
I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship. – Bharati Mukherjee
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one. – Bao Dai
I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened ‘Citizen Kane’ for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it. – Claire Danes
Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us. – Barbara Jordan
Now, I do not, on any level, possess the expertise to argue about the science of anthropological global warming. Nor do you, most likely. This certainly doesn’t mean an average citizen has the duty to do the lock step. – David Harsanyi
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. – Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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. – Michele Bachmann
As a citizen of the United States, I am ready, willing, and able to bear arms for this country. – Fred Korematsu
Everyone in the Middle East pretty much wants to come and be an American citizen, but pretty much everybody is angry with the U. S. foreign policy. – Mohamed ElBaradei
I’m a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I’m a member of both countries. – Michael Ondaatje
As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn’t really overturn a science paradigm. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
