#citizenship

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

#character #citizenship #fixed #good #good character

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#accepting #avenue #citizenship #historically #immigration

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being. ↗

— David Blunkett

#confidence #identity #our #people #reinforcing

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

#ask #citizenship #federal #federal law #had

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#citizenship #class #like #little #little bit

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

#armed forces #because #capable #chance #citizenship

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#citizenship #educational #good #good work #i

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. ↗

— J. Edgar Hoover

#citizenship #common #criminals #enforcement #every

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#democracy #logic #reason #art

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#called #came #citizenship #everything #exams