Quotes on Citizenship

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

Author: H. Brown

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

Author: Linda Chavez

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

Author: Tommy Chong

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

Author: Bainbridge Colby

On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.

Author: Nathan Deal

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

Author: Martha Gellhorn

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

Author: O. Henry

No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.

Author: Jane Hull

Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?

Author: Gwen Ifill

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.

Author: Hedy Lamarr

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

Author: James Meredith

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Author: Ralph Nader

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

Author: Phyllis Schlafly

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

Author: Phyllis Schlafly

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

Author: Phyllis Schlafly

We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

Author: John Shadegg