W. Kamau Bell Quotes

An actual residence of such a length of time as would give a man an opportunity of esteeming the Government from knowing its intrinsic value, was essentially necessary to assure us of a man’s becoming a good citizen.

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

I cast my vote against Donald Trump. I did it without joy or enthusiasm. I did it out of civic duty and love for our country.

Being an American is something we need to learn and understand.

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. Right now, I just view myself as an American.

Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Every country has the government it deserves.

Belief in liberal freedom and democracy is always belief in it in a particular place, in a national home with histories that only those who are born in a place or who adopt its citizenship can hope to understand.

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.