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I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.
Michael Ondaatje
Home
Citizen
Member
Both
Feel
Countries
Always
Canadian
Want
Lanka
It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty, unemployment: I am a committed citizen.
Michel Onfray
Me
World
Citizen
Poverty
Country
Cares
Philosopher
Unmoved
Indifferent
Am
Disconnected
His
Unemployment
Committed
Hard
Imagine
People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the rights, privileges, and immunities of an American citizen under the Constitution.
Michele Bachmann
Constitution
Rights
People
Citizen
Saw
Minutes
Given
Were
Underwear
Privileges
Than
American
American Citizen
After
Less
Floored
Bomber
Interrogation
I truly believe that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizen's makes our families and our communities more safe, not less safe.
Mike Pence
Law
Citizen
Believe
Our
Abide
Law-Abiding
More
Firearms
Safe
Makes
Truly
Families
Hands
Communities
Less
I am a deeply committed conservative who wants to keep maximal privacy for every U.S. citizen.
Mike Pompeo
Privacy
Conservative
Citizen
Every
Am
Committed
Wants
Who
Keep
Deeply
Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.
Mitch Daniels
Smoking
Citizen
Few
Every
Starts
Chronic
Benefit
Diligence
Pounds
Real
Loses
His
Crack
Disease
Managing
Stops
Us
Who
No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Citizen
Definition
Take
Affairs
Interest
Public
Public Affairs
Apolitical
My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen.
Mohammed VI of Morocco
Citizen
Morocco
Sheltered
Up
Very
Childhood
Grew
Lived
Palace
As a U.S. citizen, I cherish the First Amendment.
Mona Eltahawy
Citizen
First
First Amendment
Cherish
Amendment
I have never had a problem with national service. I am not sure the draft is the way to go about it, but I am positive that you live in a society and you take from this society, which every citizen here does. You owe something back to this country, and that should be paid back in some form of national service.
Montel Williams
Positive
Service
You
Problem
Citizen
Country
National
Live
Every
Society
Back
Way
Some
About
Something
Take
Never
Had
Sure
Does
Am
Go
Owe
Form
Which
Should
Paid
Draft
Here
I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.
Naftali Bennett
Myself
Citizen
Identity
Israeli
American
American Citizen
View
Jewish
School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group.
Neil Postman
Learning
Human Being
School
Citizen
Important
Group
Rules
About
Fact
Never
Part
Emphasizing
Always
How
Been
Human
Being
Really
Socialized
My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife's grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States.
Nicholas Kristof
Marriage
Father
Wife
Citizen
Country
States
Papers
Unnecessary
Fraud
Eastern
Fraudulent
Eastern Europe
Able
He
Bought
Sponsored
Come
Another
Making
American
American Citizen
Refugee
Chinese
Grandfather
Europe
Preparing
United
United States
Route
Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.
Niger Innis
Capitalism
Constitution
Rights
Entitlement
Citizen
Understanding
Bit
Join
Also
Policy
Insurance
Ultimate
America
Taught
Being
Bill
Bill Of Rights
English
I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.'
Noah Baumbach
You
Sex
Citizen
First
Think
Pleased
Kicking
Out
Citizen Kane
Lies
Like
Know
Box
Proud
Lot
Very
Screaming
Movie
Kane
Videotape
Really
Right
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society and make a commentary. They're not in a la la land.
Pankaj Tripathi
Citizen
Society
Too
Characters
Make
Am
La
Commentary
Want
Happening
Land
Should
Aware
I believe every citizen feels the same way about the Sewol Ferry incident.
Park Bo-young
Citizen
Believe
Every
Way
About
Feels
Ferry
Same
Incident
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
Patti Smith
Citizen
Touch
Never
Know
Burdens
Artist
May
Artists
Ordinary
Ordinary Citizen
Many
Even
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
Paul Begala
Life
Me
Human Being
Citizen
About
Rather
Instinct
Make
Answer
His
Clinton
Than
Human
Taught
Being
Your
Right
Things
Right Answer
To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.
Paul Gillmor
Citizen
Every
Our
Backs
Date
Debt
American
American Citizen
Public
Riding
Nearly
Every American
An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.
Paul Watson
Citizen
Saving
Whales
American
Going
American Citizen
Japan
When you become a citizen, you are an American and questioning somebody's Americanness because they disagree with you - is about one of the most un-American things I can think of.
Pete Buttigieg
You
Disagree
Citizen
Somebody
Become
Think
Un-American
About
Most
Because
Questioning
American
Things
My grandmother was not a U.S. citizen. Growing up along the border, you see the real human side of immigration - not the picture often drawn by politicians far removed from the border.
Pete Gallego
You
Immigration
Citizen
Picture
Politicians
Side
Drawn
Border
See
Along
Real
Real Human
Up
Often
Human
Far
Grandmother
Growing
Growing Up
Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 has been carried out by an American citizen or a legal permanent resident, not by recent immigrants or by refugees. So tamping down immigration won't fix the real issue, which is 'homegrown' terrorism.
Peter Bergen
Terrorism
Legal
Immigration
Citizen
Down
Every
States
Carried
Out
Has-Been
Immigrants
Attack
Since
Permanent
Terrorist
Terrorist Attack
Real
Issue
Been
Real Issue
Fix
American
American Citizen
Refugees
Which
Homegrown
Lethal
United
Resident
United States
Recent
Anwar al-Awlaki was a U.S. citizen by virtue of his birth in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 while his Yemeni father was studying at New Mexico State University.
Peter Bergen
Father
Citizen
Birth
State
Virtue
State University
Studying
New
His
New Mexico
Mexico
While
University
Mohammed Taheri-Azar, a naturalized U.S. citizen hailing from Iran, crashed his SUV into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006, injuring nine people.
Peter Bergen
People
Citizen
Nine
Chapel
Chapel Hill
Carolina
Crowd
Hill
His
Iran
North
North Carolina
Crashed
Mohammed
Injuring
University
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