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. – Russell Crowe
Among the most serious allegations a federal court can address are that an Executive agency has targeted citizens for mistreatment based on their political views. No citizen – Republican or Democrat, Socialist or libertarian – should be targeted or even have to fear being targeted on those grounds. – Raymond Kethledge
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs. – Paul Gillmor
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal. – Satchel Paige
You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can’t take your eyes away from it… Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane. – Roger Ebert
I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it. – Raul Labrador
As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself – and not just by voting. – Sandra Day O’Connor
The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness. – Richard Stallman
It taught me that Clinton’s instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things. – Paul Begala
Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration. – Recep Tayyip Erdogan
There’s no better citizen than a veteran. There’s so much waiting for you outside, and it’s not something to be intimidated by or scared by; it is something to be embraced. – Rob Riggle
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. – Robert Cailliau
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. – Ramsey Clark
You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States? – Victoria Woodhull
The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland. – Timothy Noah
‘Senior Citizen’ and ‘Silver Surfer’ are the new euphemisms. Unless you’re a female presenter on TV, in which case you’re ready for the knacker’s yard at 35. – Terry Wogan
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. – William Jennings Bryan
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. – Thomas Jefferson
Every U.S. citizen should have the assurance that the U.S. government will come vigorously to their defense in a time of need, especially when they are unjustly tried in a foreign country. – Trent Franks
I have been to China. I noticed that wherever you went, you could ask an ordinary citizen, and he would explain, in detail, about free markets and all the other jargon of liberalisation. – Sharad Pawar
And ‘Queer Eye’ is fascinating. It has a pinch-me-I’m-dreaming quality. It’s very bourgeois, of course, and much more about the liberation of the consumer than the liberation of the democratic citizen. – Tony Kushner
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen. – Sam Ervin
