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Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that's only half of it. Muslims need to embrace the obligations of European residence and citizenship.
David Ignatius
Needs
Obligations
Half
Muslims
Citizenship
Embrace
More
Only
Welcoming
Yes
Europe
European
Residence
Need
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.
David Novak
Destruction
Secular
Three
Jews
State
Has-Been
Citizenship
One-Third
Individual
Shaped
Israel
Been
Experiences
Modernity
Acquisition
Holocaust
Momentous
Largely
Founding
I want immigration reform to come into fruition, and I want it to be comprehensive, and I want it to have a path to citizenship, and I want to be involved politically every day.
Diane Guerrero
Day
Every Day
Immigration
Path
Every
Immigration Reform
Citizenship
Comprehensive
Come
Involved
Reform
Politically
Want
Fruition
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.
Dianne Feinstein
Service
Rights
Courage
People
Country
Our
Criteria
Willing
Willingness
Citizenship
Sexual
Armed
Armed Forces
Forces
Because
Deny
American
Them
Capable
Deprive
Should
Orientation
Serve
Competence
Serving
Chance
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
Don Tapscott
Democracy
Capitalism
Age
Digital
Active
Digital Age
Weak
Citizenry
Citizenship
Brought
Deliberation
New
Industrial
Offers
Mandate
Representative
Public
Based
Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?
Dorothea Dix
Great
Crime
Society
Other
Criminal
Hundred
Hundred Years
Respecting
Diminish
Has-Been
Citizenship
Restore
Shall
How
Reduce
Been
Years
Perplexed
Encouraged
Hand
Questions
Reform
Order
Useful
Last
Two
Pastors can lead the way in motivating the faithful to wise stewardship of their citizenship responsibilities. Without a healthy culture and civil society, limited government and ordered liberty will be impossible.
Edwin Meese
Government
Wise
Culture
Liberty
Impossible
Will
Faithful
Limited Government
Healthy
Society
Way
Responsibilities
Citizenship
Civil
Civil Society
Lead
Stewardship
Without
Limited
Motivating
Pastors
Ordered
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
You
Experience
People
Become
National
Thirty
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
States
Immigrants
Oath
Citizens
Citizenship
Someone
Week
Countries
Became
Stirring
Conference
American
Room
Organize
United
Ever
United States
Swore
Watched
Last
If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country.
Eric Liu
Work
Vote
Work Hard
Country
Build
Our
Those
Citizens
Citizenship
More
Attain
Undocumented
Sustain
Us
Should
Hard
Who
Serve
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
You
Citizen
Live
Way
Those
Papers
Citizenship
Like
Without
Isolate
Persecute
American
Just
Want
Defend
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
Rights
Conservatives
Progressives
Immigrants
Citizenship
More
Withhold
Than
Forget
Thing
Set
In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
Fabrizio Moreira
Government
Year
Back
States
Administration
Would
Citizenship
Would-Be
Allowed
Reached
Cuba
Cuban
Caught
Clinton
Clinton Administration
Begin
Any
Refugee
Shores
After
Process
While
Sent
Sea
Who
Agreement
United
United States
We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just a work visa, with a background check and a Social Security card so that applicable taxes would get paid.
Gary Johnson
Work
Legal
Visa
Background
Possible
Security
Would
Citizenship
Easy
Able
Check
Make
Green
Get
Green Card
Just
Social
Taxes
Should
Paid
Social Security
Card
Applicable
I have never concealed my dual citizenship. People involved in state business should probably declare their dual citizenship if they have it.
Gennady Timchenko
Business
People
State
Citizenship
Never
Concealed
Involved
Dual
Declare
Should
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
Family
People
Year
Citizenship
Also
Documents
Making
Coverage
Irrespective
Place
Low
Low-Income
Income
Medical
Four
Receive
Program
Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?
Gwen Ifill
Country
Entering
Citizenship
Proof
Unreasonable
Another
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
H. Rap Brown
Me
You
Class
Bit
Telling
Citizenship
Like
Little
Little Bit
Pregnant
Thing
Second
Second-Class
In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.
Hamish Bowles
Myself
National
Every
Incumbent
Finally
Way
Presidents
Citizenship
Attempting
Felt
Get
American
Psyche
Midst
Explore
Row
Applying
And we'll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy!
Hillary Clinton
Path
Build
Our
Immigrants
Citizenship
Economy
Contributing
Who
Millions
Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
Jacques Delors
Time
Speak
National
Citizenship
Same
Same Time
Should
European
Therefore
Wider
There's a Biblical mandate to reach out to those who are the orphans, the widows in their distress, to take care of the stranger in your land. But that does not mean citizenship.
James Lankford
Bible
Care
Those
Out
Distress
Citizenship
Take
Take Care
Reach
Does
Mandate
Mean
Land
Your
Stranger
Who
Orphans
Widows
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
James Meredith
Me
Rights
Nothing
Kind
Citizenship
Civil
Civil Rights
More
Could
Concept
Insulting
Perpetual
Than
Means
Second-Class
It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says.
Jan Brewer
You
Law
Police
Matter
Way
Latino
Says
Would
Citizenship
Proof
Federal
Had
He
Arizona
Police Officer
Verify
Were
Hispanic
Officer
Suspicion
Norwegian
Whether
Mean
Ask
Your
Reasonable
No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.
Jane D. Hull
Opportunities
Country
Other
Tremendous
Our
Earth
Citizenship
Could
Take
Never
Never Take
Provided
Privilege
Should
Granted
Radical Islamic jihadists have a long-term vision. And if they have to stay in Europe to obtain a citizenship, to ultimately travel to the United States, and if it takes them five years or ten years, they're okay with that. History has proven that.
Jeff Duncan
History
Travel
Vision
Radical
States
Okay
Citizenship
Stay
Ten
Ten Years
Takes
Long-Term
Obtain
Islamic
Proven
Years
Ultimately
Five
Them
Europe
United
United States
Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.
Joe Baca
Good
Needs
Character
Broken
People
Immigration
Path
Our
System
Citizenship
Towards
Real
Provides
Reform
Fixed
Good Character
Hardworking
Need
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