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The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#affect #archaic #bill #bill of rights #bits

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#citizen #day #depression #every #every day

I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there. ↗

— Howard Baker

#attitudes #back #best #citizens #date

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act. ↗

— Dave Freudenthal

#action #before #believe #broad #charted

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country. ↗

— Bao Dai

#citizen #country #free #happy #henceforth

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

#am #citizen #country #earth #fight

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi. ↗

— Medgar Evers

#enjoyed #gifts #god #mississippi #should

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#character #citizenship #confidence #movement #people

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#attempting #citizenship #doing #downloaded #had

The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting. ↗

— Lee Hazlewood

#call #dozen #hated #hours #i