Hillary Clinton Quotes

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

I liked the give-and-take of a policy discussion in the community, with citizens. I didn't know that even took place, frankly, but I never dreamed it would be an enjoyable thing to do.

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

… schools of liberty …. warehouses of disinterested patriotism

The health of our republic depends on shared principles like the First Amendment, but it is also built on the Teddy Roosevelt-like vigor of its citizens and local self-reliance.

The work of being a citizen is hard and annoying, but it can pay off.

Let's summon the courage to insist on a minimal level of civic knowledge for the citizens empowered to decide our fate.

We need democracy - but right now democracy needs us! It needs self-assured citizens who have confidence and drive, common sense and decency, and who show solidarity with others.

My point is you've been given a powerful blessing in life in this country to be able to vote and to be able to sit on the jury, so come equipped.

We believe open data helps citizens have a better understanding about Seoul's policies and motivates them to join the city government's efforts.

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs. My candidacy is based on my record, and for that matter, my entire life.

Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

You can't go home and look at your plaques at the end of the day, because every politician has like a million plaques on their wall. OK? You don't go home and look at - you don't get anything for that. And you can't go home and say, boy, I really served the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. You want to go home and, you know, Fourth of July, you know, any of these special holidays that recognize our country, you want to feel like you've built a stronger nation, which means you helped build the people and put them in a stronger place where everyone's lifted.

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold them.... I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.