Pastoral Resources

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'

On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

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.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.