All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.
Barack ObamaYou know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S. TrumanDo all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?
Thomas SowellI think it’s important to vote.
Vivienne WestwoodI told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.
Kanye WestWhat troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.
Kurt VonnegutI just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.
John F. KennedyWhen you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.
Jimmy CarterWhat the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
AristotleAll free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘
John F. KennedyAmericans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
Bill GatesThe first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore RooseveltI’m glad I can’t vote.
Kevin GatesI can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.
Fidel CastroAny other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.
Beyonce KnowlesToo many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.
John KennedyI believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerPolitics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWe thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
Margaret AtwoodAll the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
Hunter S. ThompsonI was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
Erma BombeckThe years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
George EliotSpaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization – that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.
Noam ChomskyOccupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.
Noam ChomskyAs I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.
Colin PowellElections aren’t just about who votes but who doesn’t vote.
Michelle ObamaI wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.
Alice WalkerI hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. KennedyWe don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.
Joe BidenWe knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.
Stephen CurryI don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
Dalai LamaThe idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.
Colin PowellA whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.
Herbert HooverIf people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.
Dolores HuertaThere are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.
Elvis PresleyPeople who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‚We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.‘
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Jackie RobinsonDemocracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. RooseveltJack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.
DJ KhaledGiving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. MenckenNobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Franklin D. RooseveltI’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.
Narendra ModiThe difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
Charles BukowskiSome say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?
Greta ThunbergEvery immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore RooseveltI became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
Clint EastwoodLocally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.
Billy GrahamNo country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Nelson MandelaBallots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham LincolnIn the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
Lou HoltzPeople who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
Dan QuayleOur friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.
Barack ObamaI prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.
Angelina JolieRepublicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.
Dan QuayleThe government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.
Narendra ModiI have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
Vivienne WestwoodRemember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.
Joe BidenAmerica is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.
Barack ObamaMost people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.
Maya Angelou