The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
Christa McAuliffe
ExperienceTravelSpaceCitizenSend
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
Irwin Shaw
FamilyRomanticTalentThinkCitizen
I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.
Claire Danes
CollegeWritingCitizenUpProfessor
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
Dana Rohrabacher
FutureCitizenPrivilegeReturning
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.
Wole Soyinka
YouCitizenHumanHuman BeingBeing
The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
Barbara Mikulski
DemocracyAmericanKnowCitizenVote
Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.
Pope Benedict XVI
FreedomVisionUnityPersonCitizen
I don't want anyone who is Muslim not to be able to dream that they can be President of the United States, and I don't want any of my friends, regardless of their orientation, thinking they are less of a citizen.
Scooter Braun
ThinkingFriendsDreamCitizenWant
I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.'
Noah Baumbach
ProudThinkYouSexKnowCitizen
In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.
Marquis de Lafayette
AmericaCountryCitizenPoorRights
I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.
Lewis Black
AngryHappyPersonCitizen
The National Gallery is the place that means to represent everything that's good and important in art and show what it believes everyone who is a citizen should recognize and engage.
Kerry James Marshall
GoodArtPlaceImportantCitizen
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.
Grover Norquist
CitizenGuyIdealPermit
Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
Gloria Steinem
WomenJobSomeoneCitizenPersonal
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
Goldwin Smith
StrengthDisciplineFeelCitizen
The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government.
Fritz Sauckel
GovernmentCitizenMajorityNational
I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.
Enrique Iglesias
PoliticsWarCareCitizenAgainst
In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.
Jill Lepore
WorldLearnYouCitizenKindergarten
I'm a civilian, a citizen.
David Remnick
CitizenCivilian
I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.
Jerry Hall
BadCitizenNeverEvenVeryVoted
I'm a citizen of the world.
Blick Bassy
WorldCitizen
If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.
John O. Brennan
FaceTryingPersonCitizenWillHe
Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.
Alexander Cockburn
EnvironmentalYouCitizenWearBadge
We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.
Matt Drudge
SmallCitizenTakeVoicesReporter
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