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• The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Citizenship

• Well I don’t know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don’t think you can lose your citizenship though.

  Tommy Chong

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Citizenship

• There’s no such thing as second class citizenship. That’s like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

  H. Rap Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thing, Citizenship, Telling

• When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.

  James McGreevey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Idealism, Citizenship

• The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state’s most vulnerable citizens.

  Tom Vilsack

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Citizenship

• We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents.

  George Pataki

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Citizenship

• I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

  Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Citizenship

• Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it’s more than a set of rights.

   

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conservatives, Citizenship, Immigrant

• You want to defend citizenship? Don’t persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That’d be a first-class way to be American.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Citizenship, American, Question

• Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it’s usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Citizenship, National

• Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Citizenship, Conference, United States

• Republicans say they want citizenship to truly mean something. Let’s be equal-opportunity about it and test everyone, including those very Republicans and others whose forbears came here generations ago.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Republicans, Citizenship

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Citizenship, Birthright

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Citizenship, Weapon

• As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

  Paul Wellstone

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Citizenship, Locally, Responsibility, Community

• Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

  O. Henry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Citizenship, Hills, Bohemia, Treasure

• There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

  Ralph Nader

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Citizenship

• Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

  Jacques Delors

  Tags in Wider, Citizenship

• Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Tags in Suffrage, Citizenship

• Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

  Bashar Al Assad

  Tags in Citizenship, Palestine, Iraqi