When we all start acting like citizens we can turn things around.
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There is even a feeling, a faint sense sometimes that we have been relegated to the role of walk-on in someone else's drama, that as citizens we are crucial and yet somehow ... extraneous.
We can never guarantee that there will be no surprises, but we can say to the citizens we are obliged, and seek to help and protect and defend, that we'll do everything we can to make sure that we've done the best job we can to make sure the federal government, the state government, local government and everybody's engaged in providing greater security and safety.
We believe that Americans can do anything and if we unleash the innovative spirit of our citizens, we can achieve energy independence.
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Now that we are naturalized U.S. citizens, we want to encourage public schools in America to give young people the same opportunity.
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But we also believe that in this country, as citizens, we accept certain obligations to each other and to future generations.
As citizens, we understand America is not just what can be done for us.
Our concern obviously is with, first and foremost, the safety and security of American citizens and we issued the advisory accordingly.
And just as each of us meets our responsibilities as citizens, we expect our businesses and our government to meet theirs in return.
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To create jobs for our citizens, we cut taxes six times -- including the largest income tax cut in the history of our state.
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The airplane that carried American citizens, the remaining American citizens that we wanted to get evacuated from Libya, was wheels up less than an hour ago.
Because, from the perspective of ordinary citizens, we still are.
The lessons and the legacy of the AME Church are part of our story as Americans, and as citizens, we have inherited the responsibility to be active and engaged in our democracy.
To develop the strong ties between future generations of Japanese and American citizens, we commit to strengthening people-to-people connections at all levels through efforts such as the Kizuna Project and the TOMODACHI initiative.
Until we address some of the personal spiritual poverty, the lack of ambition and the lack of hope which afflicts some of our most disadvantaged citizens then we have no chance of making real poverty history.
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In the 21st century, America can not tell its own citizens that we lack the resources to provide the benefits of citizenship but continue to pick up the tab for military actions around the world when others should be sharing those costs.
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And we will continue to inform our citizens about what we believe the risks to be.
We have to think about our fellow citizens with whom we share a community.
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We have no higher priority than the safety of American citizens, and we've airlifted injured Americans out of Haiti.
And just as we must lead on behalf of the prosperity of our citizens, so we must safeguard their security.
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We need citizens and parents to get involved, because nothing we do in school with make much of a difference unless we instill in our kids the self-confidence and the self-discipline and the work ethic that are at the heart of success not just in school but in life.
That means that we citizens elect representatives to carry out our will.
Judges, after all, represent authority, and we citizens do like to have a healthy cynicism about those who are so placed above us.
But when the mortal threat has passed and the culture begins, however vaguely, to sense and trust in this, we citizens begin to reclaim our native power.
If we want the future CEOs, politicians, and leaders sitting in classrooms today to grow up to be accountable citizens, then we need teachers to model accountable behavior.
And we citizens also have to rise to the occasion.
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Now, the EU is seeking to bring that ceiling down to 80dB on all portable music players in an effort to protect the precious hearing abilities of its citizens, though we should note that said level would only apply to the default setting, not overall maximums.
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What I'm saying is we are dealing with a changing reality and we're trying to defend the national interests of our citizens as best as we can.
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