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
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.
Linda Chavez
As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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.
Phyllis Schlafly
Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
Phyllis Schlafly
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.
O. Henry
Business owners have made a strong case to me that they need guest workers. But none has suggested that these workers should be placed on a path to citizenship.
John Shadegg
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
Martha Gellhorn
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
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
Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
Charles Rangel
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
Mark Steyn
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
Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.
Gary Miller
I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.
Angelina Jolie
I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.
Anthony Hopkins
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
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
Phyllis Schlafly
Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?
Gwen Ifill
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