The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.
quote by Richard Neal
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Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
quote by Jacques Delors
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Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
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I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.
quote by William Weld
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For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.
quote by D.W. Brogan
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Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
quote by James H. Meredith
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Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.
quote by Tommy Chong
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The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.
quote by Charles Foster Bass
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In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
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Parole Boards Mar 11th,2011
I doubt that I will ever be a parole board appointee,
Those who make these appointments would nod their heads and agree,
This important issue is never brought up at election time,
Because they don’t live in an area where there’s lots of crime.
Those appointed to the parole boards tend to be a certain class,
Inclined to let criminals out of jail and give others a free pass,
Impressed by their establishment status, importance and power,
Looking down from some legal Ottawa courthouse tower.
So it seems there’s something wrong that no one will point out,
Therefore constituents don’t know what this is all about,
Until some early released idiot commits another crime,
But why can’t the system be changed, time after time after time?
Mar 11th,2011
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I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.
quote by Melissa Bean
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It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.
quote by Brian Baird
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Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.
quote by Jay Inslee
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No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.
quote by Ginny B. Waite
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How Did You Get Past The Guards
Whatever you deem,
At the time...
Is important,
To you.
Let whatever it is at that time,
Be important.
That's the same way I feel about my time,
You take for granted...
Whenever you feel okay,
To dropp by unexpectedly...
To make your time,
The time I am not feeling.
Whatever you deem,
At the time...
Is important,
To you.
Let whatever it is at that time,
Be important.
But do not think for one moment,
My time...
Is not important to me.
And not a second of it do I plan to share!
Or...
Will be convinced that I should.
You are on the East side of this rainbow.
How did you get past the guards?
I keep telling them,
No visitors.
You...
Must have been annoying them for too long!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.
quote by Leonard Boswell
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We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process.
quote by Luis Gutierrez
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Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.
quote by Ed Miliband
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As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.
quote by Ben Chandler
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