Citizenship Quotes - Page 14

• The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.

  George Washington

  America, Giving, Liberty

  George Washington, Edward Frank Humphrey (1932). “George Washington on religious liberty and mutual understanding: selections from Washington's letters”

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• For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and art, as well as citizenship, civilization, faith, and the whole notion of the true, the good, and the faithful.

  Os Guinness

  Art, Reading, Civilization

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• A massive new guest worker program hurts American workers. ... If a guest worker program were to provide a path to citizenship, we would be rewarding lawbreakers with the greatest honor our country can bestow - citizenship.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Country, Hurt, Honor

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• Again, something that's very strange and odd, you will find sometimes that immigrants that have been here for many years and already have their citizenship might be the ones against additional immigration. We've seen that also.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Years, Immigration, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

  Joan Claybrook

  Democracy, Ordinary, Citizens

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• I think what he [Donald Trump] has said is that people are not going to be eligible for legalization or citizenship unless they leave the country and get back in line.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Thinking, People

  "Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship.

  Eddie Vedder

  Winning, Littles, Ifs

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• I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Believe, Paper, Flesh

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I shall accord to myself the honor of inscribing myself as an applicant for the American citizenship which according to law I can obtain only after five years residence in this country. And I shall yield to no one of my future countrymen in patriotism. I consider America now my real home.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Country, Real, Home

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• Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you'll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff.

  Michael Arrington

  Country, Moving, Mean

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• Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Real, Should

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• I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV.

  Craig Ferguson

  United States, Want, Tvs

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• I do not support citizenship for those already here illegally. Those who cut the line and broke our laws as their first act entering this country have foregone that opportunity.

  Carly Fiorina

  Country, Cutting, Opportunity

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the mainstream in short bursts and pulses and then gets diluted. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson shot up and then got sucked back down underground under more entertaining and less radical versions of body and self - poetry and prose that posited bodies in more perfect union with good citizenship.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Self, Perfect, Body

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We are waiting for Donald Trump`s big immigration speech. There are lots of unanswered questions that remain about where exactly Trump stands on deportation forces, on what to do with the millions of immigrants who are here illegally now, and where he stands on the question of birthright citizenship.

  Steve Kornacki

  Waiting, Deportation, Immigration

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I will fight every single day to pass comprehensive immigration-reform legislation with a path to citizenship.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Immigration, Reform

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be able to read to save their soul. That idea got transposed into an idea of the importance of literacy for democratic citizenship.

  Robert Hass

  Ideas, Soul, Able

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• I think it is right for Canadians to be asked to show their faces when they're taking the oath. On revocation of citizenship, we do not let people who have criminal records, including convictions for terrorism, become either permanent residents or citizens. I think there is a limit beyond which someone has really cashed in their chips in terms of their allegiance to Canada.

  Chris Alexander

  Thinking, People, Criminals

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Young people increasingly have become subject to an oppressive disciplinary machine that teaches them to define citizenship through the exchange practices of the market and to follow orders and toe the line in the face of oppressive forms of authority. They are caught in a society in which almost every aspect of their lives is shaped by the dual forces of the market and a growing police state.

  Henry Giroux

  Order, Practice, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word - citizenship - for someone my age, it makes me cringe. But, to me, the political space we're in now argues for a reboot of fairly simple ideas and the examination of the way that Americans have not been living into them.

  George Saunders

  Book, Simple, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The14th Amendment does not require birthright citizenship. It doesn't mention it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Doe, Amendments, Birthright

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• The Supreme Court has only granted citizenship to the children born to legal immigrants, not illegal.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, Granted, Born

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• Who in their right mind ever thought that the birth of a child to an illegal immigrant converted to citizenship? A lot of people believe it. It's not in the 14th Amendment. You know where it is? It's in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, Believe, People

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• Congress decides who becomes a citizen and how. To automatically say the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship, no, we can't change that. Amending the Constitution, not possible, takes too long. We gotta find another way of dealing with this. No, we don't, because it's not there. You don't have to amend the Constitution.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Long, Citizens, Way

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• Let's remind ourselves that offering an opportunity for somebody to register to vote at the Department of Motor Vehicles has been required by federal law for decades now. We know it as motor voter. So whether it's motor voter and people registering on paper or online voter registration, we have the protocols in place to keep people who are not eligible to register to vote from registering, whether it's for citizenship status, whether it's for age or any other reason.

  Audie Cornish

  Opportunity, Offering, Motor Vehicles

  Source: www.npr.org

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