#citizens

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. ↗

— Mario Monti

#against #because #citizens #close #debt

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#american citizens #citizens #happiness #involve #moods

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#civic #consciousness #educates #gives #into

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#camps #citizens #concentration #countries #intern

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#daily #democracy #without

Citizenship consists in the service of the country. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#consists #country #service

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#citizens #data #facts #figures #forthcoming

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#citizens #elected #good #good citizens #officials

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda. ↗

— Richard Neal

#american companies #citizenship #companies #corporate #countries

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#govern #i #independent #israel #own