#status

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it? ↗

— Eric Liu

#ask #birth #citizenship #conferred #denial

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering. ↗

— Eric Liu

#birth #birthright #citizenship #considering #deserve

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#i #just #movie #parts #reduced

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#interested #not interested #overthrow #preserving #quo

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#because #bureaucracy #cabinet #committee #environment

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#challenge #cowardly #field #go #i

A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries. ↗

— Li Peng

#developing #exist #participation #recognising #status

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#defends #long #lost #past #quo

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#league #most #press #quo #status

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#always #childhood #childhood memories #connections #dad