#zen

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#zen

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#citizen #gap #measure #person #public

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#citizen #citizenship #country #i #i love

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#decent #dollars #earned #eisner #first

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. ↗

— Dave Barry

#because #citizens #cooperate #duty #feel

We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#beat #believing #biggest #citizen #country

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#back #citizens #criminal #hurting #law-abiding

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#because #citizen #does #good #good citizen

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever. ↗

— Maurice Hinchey

#american #any #citizenry #companies #conscience

Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#booth #ceo #citizen #congress #counted