#citizen

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble. ↗

— Emmylou Harris

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We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

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Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation. ↗

— John Hawkins

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The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

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Accordingly, it is our task to ensure that the Government formulates policies that foster the continued development of the IT sector while also providing for citizens' access to technology and opportunity for economic advancement. ↗

— Tim Holden

#accordingly #advancement #also #citizens #continued

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens. ↗

— Sheldon Jackson

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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change. ↗

— James A. Leach

#allow #alteration #bush #change #citizens

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

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There are pockets of wealth in this country. Mostly those pockets are in the politicians’ pants. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#corrupt #corruption #country #funny #humor