Top 1200 Global Citizen Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.

Curbing pollution and global warming takes a global cooperative mindset. Development aid needs to be rethought in this context.

One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.

The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements

There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.

We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.

I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president. I looking to be the president of the United States. Or, I'll be a private citizen, there's nothing wrong with being a private citizen.

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

WWE is a global juggernaut; it is the pinnacle. It is a global entity. You have superstars from Australia, China, Japan.

If you are going to vote in this country, you should be a citizen. To be a citizen in this country, you should know English.

That provision in the constitution which requires that the president shall be a native-born citizen (unless he were a citizen of the United States when the constitution was adopted,) is a happy means of security against foreign influence, which, where-ever it is capable of being exerted, is to be dreaded more than the plague.

Oil is a tangible commodity, so there is a global market. The fact that we may need less may affect the global price because we're big consumers: we probably take about a quarter of global demand. But if suddenly, let's just use a crazy example, fighting in the Middle East led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and no oil could get out through the Strait of Hormuz, well that would affect China, India, Europe, it will affect the whole global economy. It will affect us, too, then.

To kill a citizen of our own country is evil, but to kill a citizen of another country is 'good.'

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response.

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

I am here, a citizen of this country, and I'm saying, 'Hey, the system failed me. I am a good citizen. I contribute to this country, and here I am sharing my story. What are you going to do now?'

I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary.

With global rules for global supply chains, we can end corporate greed.

Hugh [Evans] called us. And obviously this has been on our radar for all the years it`s been going on. And each year obviously reaches more and more people, and it`s high profile. Hugh reached out to our manager just down the street. And we said we`re here [ on GLOBAL CITIZEN in the Central Park] to help and do whatever we can.

The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a state and a citizen of the United States.

We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge.

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

If the expansion of a global legal regime for communication technologies gains traction, the effects to the global economy as well as our individual liberties will be severe.

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'.

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.

Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.

We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.

I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon.

A global tax body would give all countries - not just the rich and powerful - an equal say in how the global rules on taxation are designed.

In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’

We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making.

I think Diplo is a true global artist. I feel that he is exposing country artists to his global reach and that's something that is rarely done in our genre.

WWE is a global brand, and it's a global company. So, we want to have superstars from all over the world.

The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Responsible global behaviour is ultimately an act of self-preservation of, by, and for the global beast that modern technological humanity has become.

As we deliver airplanes and we enable global travel and global cargo delivery, it provides overall economic growth around the world as well.

Over the longer run, advanced economy policy actions that strengthen global growth and global trade will benefit the EMEs as well.

Health is a worldwide public good. It requires global action guided by a sense of global solidarity.

Climate change and energy use are global problems - News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.

I am overwhelmed and I am glad I can make my parents proud by becoming a Canadian citizen. It has been a long journey becoming a Canadian citizen.

Global stocks bottomed in June 1921, but global economies didn't hit bottom for fully two more years.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

A global economy requires a global currency.

One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.

Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.

A global world needs global firewalls.

Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.

We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.