Citizenship Quotations | Page 2

The agreement requires Hamdi, once he arrives in Saudi Arabia, to renounce any claim he has to U.S. citizenship and to abide by strict travel restrictions,

It's been harder and harder for us to move this number up because tests we perform really well on have been taken off the table. Reading and math are really dominating the testing, where it used to be more of an equal balance in the past (with citizenship and science tests). It's kind of taken over the charts.

The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards for legal permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship than all the rest of the nations of the world combined.

Not only do our employees work hard every day to make Microsoft a successful business, but they also contribute their time, expertise, and personal resources to many of our citizenship efforts. We wouldn't have achieved so much in this area were it not for their generosity.

In December 2004, the Osage Nation of Oklahoma won its battle in Congress to determine our own laws and citizenship, ... It was the end of a long road to independence for our tribe, but the beginning of what we feel is most precious: our sovereignty. I am often asked if gaming has taken over the national debate on Indians in America. But gaming is an extension of our sovereignty, not the other way around and we cannot allow others to frame our issues for us. As Indian people, sovereignty comes first.

I'm praying they're going to give him his citizenship.

I fully support legal immigration and a temporary guest worker program, but I cannot endorse a proposal that rewards illegal immigrants with immediate legal status and a clear path to citizenship and voting rights.

Illegal aliens should not be granted amnesty and a path to citizenship. This would be a slap in the face to all those who have followed the law and come to America legally.

He spoke to many Dominican friends and American friends, and many American players. If he was going to play in the classic, he was going to honor his citizenship and play for the United States.

Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.

All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.

Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.

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

If ever there was a doubt about the importance of exercising the most fundamental right of citizenship, it was clearly answered by the first presidential election of the 21st century.

I am asking the state of Israel to revoke my citizenship. This wish for revocation of citizenship is neither new nor recent. Now, however, it is supported by the new Revocation of Citizenship Law.

I don't mean to be insensitive, but at some point you have to draw the line or the law becomes meaningless. Why doesn't (Mexico) consider granting citizenship to the spouse to go there? Why is it always our obligation?

I do not favor or support, nor will I vote for, a pathway to citizenship for people that are here who've broken the law. I would support - after we have developed a secure border - a mechanism for allowing those folks to work here in America... Everything that we should do should be based on good, sound policy and what's right for America.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.

I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will.

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

These immigrants that come here, their dream is to cross the border, get their citizenship and actually live here.

This is a huge step forward for our fight for immigration reform. Obviously the organized marches across the nation have shown that there is a will for change and a path for citizenship that rewards hard work and reflects American values.

The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.

The current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of 'anchor babies' must end because it creates a magnet for illegal immigration into our country. Now is the time to ensure that the laws in this country do not encourage law-breaking.

Castilian Spanish speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian speaking Spain, Galician speaking Spain and Basque speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.

I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

Those who come forward will not be offered an automatic pass to citizenship and should be expected to pay a substantial fine or penalty to participate in the temporary program.

We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship,

For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

History is the key to citizenship.

And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?

The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be able to read to save their soul. That idea got transposed into an idea of the importance of literacy for democratic citizenship.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

[Donald] Trump is right when he says Ted Cruz citizenship has never been litigated!

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

I consider writing an act of good citizenship.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.

The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.

Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still worse, to any applicant from Arkansas.

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Amend Constitution to remove aliens' birthright citizenship.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.