#zen

An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#citizens #cost #electricity #energy #increase

This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#citizens #created #cutting #elderly #fortunate

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety? ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#anxiety #ask #attacking #basis #citizens

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#assertive #best #citizenry #defense #government

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror. ↗

— Richard Burr

#any #carefully #citizens #congress #consider

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#civic #countries #dozens #nationalism #other

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#chicago #citizen #city #i #i am

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#cross #died #jesus #second-class #women

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing. ↗

— Thomas Carper

#band #bigger #broken #citizens #class